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milk toast

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noun
toast, usually buttered, served in hot milk with sugar or with salt and pepper.
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Origin of milk toast

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH milk toast

milk toast , milquetoast

Other definitions for milk toast (2 of 2)

milk-toast
[ milk-tohst ]
/ ˈmɪlkˌtoʊst /
adjective
easily dominated; extremely mild; ineffectual; namby-pamby; wishy-washy.
noun
milquetoast.

Origin of milk-toast

First recorded in 1815–25
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British Dictionary definitions for milk toast

milktoast
/ (ˈmɪlkˌtəʊst) /
noun
a variant spelling of milquetoast
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