milk toast
toast, usually buttered, served in hot milk with sugar or with salt and pepper.
Origin of milk toast
1Words that may be confused with milk toast
- milk toast , milquetoast
Words Nearby milk toast
Other definitions for milk-toast (2 of 2)
easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
Origin of milk-toast
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How to use milk toast in a sentence
When Monona declared against bacon, it was Lulu who suggested milk toast and went to make it.
Miss Lulu Bett | Zona GaleThen eat slowly a little light food, such as milk-toast or very hot beef-tea.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) | Marion HarlandMary Grey trifled with her chicken-wing, tasted her milk-toast and sipped a little coffee.
Victor's Triumph | Mrs. E. D. E. N. SouthworthEphraim drew up his chair, whimpering; but he fell to on the milk-toast with ardor, and his hand dropped from his side.
Pembroke | Mary E. Wilkins FreemanWhen Rebecca entered the house, her mother was standing over the stove, making milk-toast for supper.
Pembroke | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
British Dictionary definitions for milktoast
/ (ˈmɪlkˌtəʊst) /
a variant spelling of milquetoast
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