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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of milch¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

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

From The New Yorker

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

From Economist

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.

From Washington Post