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"etymology_text": "From the belief in European folklore that such milk was a source of nourishment for witches' familiars.",
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"pos": "noun",
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"name": "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Judith Lauwers, Anna Swisher, Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 119",
"text": "Left alone, witch's milk disappears in about 20 days.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
"glosses": [
"Milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies."
],
"id": "en-witch's_milk-en-noun-Hd09-uFx",
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"Milk",
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"breast",
"breast"
],
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"newborn",
"newborn"
],
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "neonatal milk"
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mou⁴ jyu⁵",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"word": "巫乳"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "heksemælk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "heksenmelk"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hexenmilch"
},
{
"alt": "まにゅう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "manyū",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"word": "魔乳"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"word": "鬼乳"
},
{
"alt": "きにゅう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kinyū",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"word": "奇乳"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "heksemelk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "heksemjølk"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "häxmjölk"
}
]
}
],
"word": "witch's milk"
}
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"examples": [
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"ref": "2005, Judith Lauwers, Anna Swisher, Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 119",
"text": "Left alone, witch's milk disappears in about 20 days.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies."
],
"links": [
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"breast"
],
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"newborn",
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],
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],
"tags": [
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}
],
"synonyms": [
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"word": "neonatal milk"
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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mou⁴ jyu⁵",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"word": "巫乳"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "heksemælk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "heksenmelk"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hexenmilch"
},
{
"alt": "まにゅう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "manyū",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"word": "魔乳"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"word": "鬼乳"
},
{
"alt": "きにゅう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kinyū",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"word": "奇乳"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "heksemelk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "heksemjølk"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "milk secreted from the breasts of newborn babies",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "häxmjölk"
}
],
"word": "witch's milk"
}
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