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"text": "1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 3, Prop. 3, p. 51,\n[…] some Plants upon breaking their Vessels yield a milky Juice; others a Yellow of peculiar Tastes and Qualities."
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"ref": "1928, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Book One, Chapter Three, 3",
"text": "[…] the kind, slightly milky odour of cattle […]",
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"ref": "1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, published 1999, pages 37–38",
"text": "She wheels her gaze from the wall on to me. The black irises are set off by milky whites as clear as a child’s.",
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"text": "milky tea; milky cocoa"
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"ref": "1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 1, in Memento Mori, New York: New Directions, published 2000, page 13",
"text": "Mrs. Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table.",
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"(of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk."
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"text": "1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30,\nShot up from broad rank blades that droop below,\nThe nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow,\nWith milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down,\nEre yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown;"
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"ref": "1914, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 19, in The Hidden Children, New York: Appleton, page 575",
"text": "[…] the servile Eries were staggering out of the corn fields laden with ripe ears; and the famished soldiers were shouting and cursing at them and tearing the corn from their arms to gnaw the raw and milky grains.",
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"text": "1981, Martin Morolong, “The Old-Style Calendar” in Bessie Head, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind, London: Heinemann,\nThe birds perch on the sorghum heads and try to eat them but the dry seed falls to the ground. The birds can only peck it out of the sorghum head when it is still milky and green."
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"ref": "1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Vintage, published 2002, Part, Chapter, pp. 45-46",
"text": "‘Who said there was going to be any killing?’ The lightning flared up and showed his tight shabby jacket, the bunch of soft hair at the nape. ‘I’ve got a date, that’s all. You be careful what you say, Spicer. You aren’t milky, are you?’\n‘I’m not milky. You got me wrong, Pinkie. I just don’t want another killing […]’",
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"ref": "1977 April 23, Ken Withers, “No Boycott”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
"text": "The boycott of Florida orange juice, while coming from genuine feelings, is basically a milky-liberal response to an issue that needs united, vocal, public action.",
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"ref": "1651, William Davenant, Gondibert, London: John Holden, Book 2, Canto 3, Stanza 48, p. 101",
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"text": "Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred",
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"ref": "1851, Charles Kingsley, chapter 1, in Yeast, London: John W. Parker, page 15",
"text": "There were the everlasting hills around, even as they had grown for countless ages, beneath the still depths of the primeval chalk ocean, in the milky youth of this great English land.",
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"ref": "1882, Walter Besant, chapter 2, in The Revolt of Man, London: Blackwood, page 45",
"text": "I am no milky, modest, obedient youth, Constance. […]",
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"ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, “A Country Life”, in Hesperides, London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, page 37",
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"text": "[…] ye heare the Lamb by many a bleat",
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"text": "1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 3, Prop. 3, p. 51,\n[…] some Plants upon breaking their Vessels yield a milky Juice; others a Yellow of peculiar Tastes and Qualities."
},
{
"ref": "1928, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Book One, Chapter Three, 3",
"text": "[…] the kind, slightly milky odour of cattle […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, published 1999, pages 37–38",
"text": "She wheels her gaze from the wall on to me. The black irises are set off by milky whites as clear as a child’s.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk."
],
"links": [
[
"milk",
"milk"
],
[
"color",
"color"
],
[
"consistency",
"consistency"
],
[
"smell",
"smell"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black."
],
"links": [
[
"black",
"black"
],
[
"image",
"image"
],
[
"gray",
"gray"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"topics": [
"color",
"science",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "milky tea; milky cocoa"
},
{
"ref": "1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 1, in Memento Mori, New York: New Directions, published 2000, page 13",
"text": "Mrs. Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Containing (an especially large amount of) milk."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk."
],
"tags": [
"of a drink"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30,\nShot up from broad rank blades that droop below,\nThe nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow,\nWith milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down,\nEre yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown;"
},
{
"ref": "1914, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 19, in The Hidden Children, New York: Appleton, page 575",
"text": "[…] the servile Eries were staggering out of the corn fields laden with ripe ears; and the famished soldiers were shouting and cursing at them and tearing the corn from their arms to gnaw the raw and milky grains.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1981, Martin Morolong, “The Old-Style Calendar” in Bessie Head, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind, London: Heinemann,\nThe birds perch on the sorghum heads and try to eat them but the dry seed falls to the ground. The birds can only peck it out of the sorghum head when it is still milky and green."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Containing a whitish liquid, juicy."
],
"links": [
[
"whitish",
"whitish"
],
[
"liquid",
"liquid"
],
[
"juicy",
"juicy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of grains) Containing a whitish liquid, juicy."
],
"tags": [
"of grains"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Vintage, published 2002, Part, Chapter, pp. 45-46",
"text": "‘Who said there was going to be any killing?’ The lightning flared up and showed his tight shabby jacket, the bunch of soft hair at the nape. ‘I’ve got a date, that’s all. You be careful what you say, Spicer. You aren’t milky, are you?’\n‘I’m not milky. You got me wrong, Pinkie. I just don’t want another killing […]’",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1977 April 23, Ken Withers, “No Boycott”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
"text": "The boycott of Florida orange juice, while coming from genuine feelings, is basically a milky-liberal response to an issue that needs united, vocal, public action.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Cowardly."
],
"links": [
[
"Cowardly",
"cowardly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) Cowardly."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1651, William Davenant, Gondibert, London: John Holden, Book 2, Canto 3, Stanza 48, p. 101",
"roman": "From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud!",
"text": "Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1851, Charles Kingsley, chapter 1, in Yeast, London: John W. Parker, page 15",
"text": "There were the everlasting hills around, even as they had grown for countless ages, beneath the still depths of the primeval chalk ocean, in the milky youth of this great English land.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1882, Walter Besant, chapter 2, in The Revolt of Man, London: Blackwood, page 45",
"text": "I am no milky, modest, obedient youth, Constance. […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Immature, childish."
],
"links": [
[
"Immature",
"immature"
],
[
"childish",
"childish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) Immature, childish."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, “A Country Life”, in Hesperides, London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, page 37",
"roman": "Woo’d to come suck the milkie Teat:",
"text": "[…] ye heare the Lamb by many a bleat",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Producing milk, lactating."
],
"links": [
[
"lactating",
"lactate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Producing milk, lactating."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɪlki/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪlki"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
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{
"sense": "resembling milk",
"word": "lacteous"
},
{
"word": "lacteous"
},
{
"sense": "containing milk",
"word": "lactiferous"
},
{
"sense": "cowardly",
"word": "fearful"
},
{
"word": "nithing"
},
{
"word": "cowardly"
},
{
"sense": "immature",
"word": "infantile"
},
{
"word": "puerile"
},
{
"word": "childish"
},
{
"sense": "producing milk",
"word": "lactifluous"
},
{
"sense": "producing milk",
"word": "nursing"
},
{
"sense": "producing milk",
"word": "with milk"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "rup",
"lang": "Aromanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lãptos"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "llechosu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mlečen",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "млечен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lletós"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "rǔbáisè",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "乳白色"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "mléčný"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "melkachtig"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lakta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "maitoinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "laiteux"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "leitoso"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "milchig"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "galaktódis",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "γαλακτώδης"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "dudhiyā",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "दुधिया"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "tejszerű"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "laktatra"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "laktea"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lachtach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "latteo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lattiginoso"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "süttı",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "сүтті"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "süttüü",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "сүттүү"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lacteus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "galacticus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lactaneus"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "pieniškas"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "pieninis"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "pieningas"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"english": "In appearance",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "kauehu"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "melkeaktig"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "mleczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "leitoso"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lăptos"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "molóčnyj",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "моло́чный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "dated or poetic",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mléčnyj",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "мле́чный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "lechoso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "mjölkig"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "sütlü"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "moločnyj",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "молочний"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "resembling milk in color or consistency",
"word": "llaethog"
}
],
"word": "milky"
}
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