milch
Americanadjective
noun
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(modifier) (esp of cattle) yielding milk
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informal a source of easy income, esp a person
Etymology
Origin of milch
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
Vocabulary lists containing milch
Example Sentences
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Poor folk commonly shared roofs with gophers, pack rats, dogs, cats, chickens, goats, milch cows, rattlesnakes, and hogs.
From Slate • May 16, 2020
The alternative preferred by some investors is to sell off everything else and milch the enterprise market, which would put Microsoft into a long, very profitable but possibly fatal decline.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2014
The ancestor of the European milch cow was the ox-like wild aurochs, which finally went extinct in the 17th century.
From Slate • Jul. 24, 2012
Vice President Rutskoi denounced the new economic treaty as "banditry" that would allow the other republics to treat Russia as a "milch cow," then changed his mind when Ukraine pulled out.
From Time Magazine Archive
We owned our own ploughing bullocks; we kept a milch goat.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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