milch

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Used to produce milk; dairy. dated,not-comparable
    — so many cattle […] old cows and young cows; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce […] Texas steers.
  2. Currently producing milk for its offspring. dated,not-comparable
    — She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace / Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache / Hasting to feed her fawn, hid in some break.
  3. Tender; pitiful; weeping. not-comparable,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
milch camel milch cow milch goat milch-maid milch-wench milch-woman milchy non-milch

词源

From Middle English milche, melche, from Old English *melċe, *milċe (attested in þrimilċe, þrimilċemōnaþ), from Proto-Germanic *milkijaz, *melkijaz from Proto-Germanic *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“to wipe, wipe off, milk”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian meelk (“milch”), Low German melke (“milch”), German melk (“milk-giving, milch”), Alemannic German mëlch (“milch, milkable”), Icelandic milkur, mjólkur (“milk-giving”). More at milk. Compare milchig.
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