milch

[ milch ]

adjective

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

milch

/ mɪltʃ /

noun

1. modifier (esp of cattle) yielding milk
2. milch cow informal.
   a source of easy income, esp a person

Word History and Origins

Origin of milch¹

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); milk

Word History and Origins

Origin of milch¹

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

Example Sentences

Milch, who wrote such superb shows as NYPD Blue and Deadwood and also penned Luck, is a disgrace as well.

From The Daily Beast

In the name of their supposed art, Milch, Mann, and the HBO brass were all too willing to subject horses to fatal harm.

From The Daily Beast

Luck, created by Michael Mann and David Milch, had already been renewed for a second season, despite meager ratings.

From The Daily Beast

That one milch-cow shall be kept and calf reared for every sixty sheep and ten oxen during the following seven years.

From Project Gutenberg

Your milch-cows, O destroyers, are never destroyed;—when they went in triumph, the chariots followed.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Just outside of the avenue gate they met a line of milch-cows en route for the "cuppen."

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg