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milch

[ milch ]

adjective

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


milch

/ mɪltʃ /

noun

  1. modifier (esp of cattle) yielding milk
  2. milch cow informal.
    a source of easy income, esp a person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of milch1

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

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

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

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

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

From BBC

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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