Milch Definition

mĭlch
adjective

Milk.

Webster's New World
Giving milk.
A milch cow.
American Heritage

Origin of Milch

  • From Middle English milche, melch, from Old English meolc, meolce (“giving milk, milch"), from Proto-Germanic *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving"), from Proto-Indo-European *mÁlg- (“to wipe, wipe off, milk"). Cognate with Low German melke (“milch"), German melk (“milk-giving, milch"), Icelandic milkur, mjólkur (“milk-giving"). More at milk.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English milche from Old English -milce (in thrīmilce May, month when cows can be milked thrice a day) melg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Milch Sentence Examples

  • Even the pharmaceutical industry is not the milch cow that publishers might think us to be.

  • In the same year, according to the same authority, there were in the state 196,000 milch cows, 92,000 other neat cattle, 45, 000 sheep and 70,000 swine.

  • In 1910 there were 495,000 neat cattle (285,000 milch cows), 94,000 horses (average value, $106), 229,000 sheep and 95,000 swine.

  • The relation between ants and aphids has often been compared to that between men and milch cattle.

  • In 1900 there were 868,832 and in 1910 947, 000 milch cows in the state.

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