"milk toast" meaning in English

See milk toast in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɪlk təʊst/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmɪlk ˌtoʊst/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav [Southern-England] Forms: milk toasts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} milk toast (countable and uncountable, plural milk toasts)
  1. A food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk, typically with sugar and butter, but which also may contain other ingredients. Wikipedia link: milk toast Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Breads, Desserts Synonyms: graveyard stew Derived forms: milquetoast

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for milk toast meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "milk toasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "milk toast (countable and uncountable, plural milk toasts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Breads",
          "orig": "en:Breads",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Desserts",
          "orig": "en:Desserts",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "milquetoast"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk, typically with sugar and butter, but which also may contain other ingredients."
      ],
      "id": "en-milk_toast-en-noun-SokmbVAY",
      "links": [
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "toasted",
          "toasted#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "bread",
          "bread"
        ],
        [
          "warm",
          "warm#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "milk",
          "milk#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sugar",
          "sugar#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "contain",
          "contain"
        ],
        [
          "ingredient",
          "ingredient"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "graveyard stew"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "milk toast"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɪlk təʊst/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɪlk ˌtoʊst/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "milquetoast"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "milk toast"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "milquetoast"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "milk toasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "milk toast (countable and uncountable, plural milk toasts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Breads",
        "en:Desserts"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk, typically with sugar and butter, but which also may contain other ingredients."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "toasted",
          "toasted#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "bread",
          "bread"
        ],
        [
          "warm",
          "warm#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "milk",
          "milk#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sugar",
          "sugar#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "contain",
          "contain"
        ],
        [
          "ingredient",
          "ingredient"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "graveyard stew"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "milk toast"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɪlk təʊst/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɪlk ˌtoʊst/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "milquetoast"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-milquetoast.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "milk toast"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.