Definitions for milk

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milk milk

Spelling: [milk]

IPA: /mɪlk/

Milk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in milk (iklm).

Definitions for milk

noun

1. an opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young.
2. this liquid as secreted by cows, goats, or certain other animals and used by humans for food or as a source of butter, cheeses, yogurt, etc.
3. any liquid resembling this, as the liquid within a coconut, the juice or sap of certain plants, or various pharmaceutical preparations.

Idioms

1. cry over spilled milk, to lament what cannot be changed or corrected; express sorrow for past actions or events:

verb (used with object)

1. to press or draw milk from the udder or breast of.
2. to extract something from as if by milking.
3. to get something from; exploit:
4. to extract; draw out:

verb (used without object)

1. to yield milk, as a cow.
2. to milk a cow or other mammal.

Origin of milk

before 900; Middle English; Old English meol(o)c, (Anglian) milc; cognate with German Milch, Old Norse mjōlk, Gothic miluks; akin to Latin mulgēre, Greek amélgein to milk

Examples for milk

Donations kept coming in, mostly in plastic grocery bags filled with food, water, and milk.

He would shake a chilled Coke, and then spray the soda into a cold glass of milk.

Add the milk, butter, salt, and pepper and return the clams.

The result is that a gallon of milk at the local market costs $12.55.

His only nourishment was milk, drawn from a bottle through a quill.

Beat the eggs, add the maple sirup, and add this to the milk.

Beat the eggs slightly and add them with the milk to the dates.

Her mother had brought her a piece of seed-cake and a cup of milk with the cream on it.

Still, not everything has been milk and honey when it comes to trans issues in the Holy Land.

Rebel Wilson was the buzziest new talent on TV at the time, and ABC wanted to milk her for as many viewers as it could.