milch

[ milch ]

adjective
  1. (of a domestic animal) yielding milk; kept or suitable for milk production.

Origin of milch

1
1250–1300; Middle English milche; compare Old English -milce (in thrimilce the month of May, i.e., the month when cows could be milked thrice a day); see milk

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How to use milch in a sentence

  • They had an idea that the Expedition was a kind of milch cow out of which money could be extracted to their hearts' content.

    Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
  • Just outside of the avenue gate they met a line of milch-cows en route for the "cuppen."

  • These are all now on it; oxen and milch-kine; the horses, too, hoppled neck-and-knee, to keep them from straying.

    The Vee-Boers | Mayne Reid

British Dictionary definitions for milch

milch

/ (mɪltʃ) /


noun
  1. (modifier) (esp of cattle) yielding milk

  2. milch cow informal a source of easy income, esp a person

Origin of milch

1
C13: from Old English -milce (in compounds); related to Old English melcan to milk

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