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milky(1) (iou)



milky adjective. LME.
[from MILK noun + -Y1.]
Resembling milk, esp. in colour. Also, (of a gem, glass, liquid, etc.) cloudy, resembling milk in water. LME.
T. H. Huxley The liquid becomes milky as the carbonic gas..bubbles through. R. West The..bowl of blue and white porcelain shone with the proper clean milky radiance.
a. Of or consisting of milk. rare. LME.
b. Containing or mixed with milk; having much milk; poet. yielding milk. M17.
W. C. Bryant Argos, richly stocked In milky kine.
c. Botany. Full of white or pale-coloured juice. M18.
transf. & fig.
a. Of a person, a person's action, a personal attribute, etc.: mild, gentle; timorous, weak, compliant; slang cowardly. E17.
Byron They made..me (the milkiest of men) a satirist. G. Greene I'm not milky..I just don't want another killing.
b. Of a sound: soft, pleasant. poet. E20.
milkily adverb (rare) L19.
milkiness noun (a) the state or condition of resembling milk; (b) cloudy whiteness of the sky etc.; nebulosity; (c) fig. mildness, gentleness; weakness: L17.