MILCH Definition & Meaning

milch

[ milch ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

(of a domestic animal) yielding milk; kept or suitable for milk production.

milch

/ ��ɪ��ʃ /

noun

modifier (esp of cattle) yielding milk
milch cow informal.
a source of easy income, esp a person

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of milch¹

1250–1300; Middle English milche; compare Old English -milce (in thrimilce the month of May, i.e., the month when cows could be milked thrice a day); milk

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of milch¹

C13: from Old English -milce (in compounds); related to Old English melcan to milk

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We owned our own ploughing bullocks; we kept a milch goat.

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No wonder Spark referred to it as her “milch cow.”

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In Spark’s words, the novel became her “milch cow”.

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But traditional designs often made women feel like ungainly milch cows.

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Worrying that the whole house was going to go up in flames when the milch cow kicked a candle over into the kerosene bucket.

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