milk-chocolaty

See also: milk chocolaty

English

Alternative forms

• milk chocolatey, milk-chocolatey
• milk chocolaty

Etymology

From milk chocolate +‎ -y.

Adjective

milk-chocolaty (comparative more milk-chocolaty, superlative most milk-chocolaty)

1. Resembling or characteristic of milk chocolate.
   • 1943, Vincent McHugh, “Wednesday: 18th February”, in I Am Thinking of My Darling: An Adventure Story, 3rd printing, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, section 1, page 24:

     [T]he pigeons kept coming too. I liked the pale milk-chocolaty ones with the dark iridescent rippling ruffs.

   • 2003, Rosemary Black, “Halloween”, in The Kids’ Holiday Baking Book: 150 Favorite Dessert Recipes from Around the World, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 178:

     Sometimes I ate so much chocolate that I had to eat a Payday or two in between, just to counteract the sweet milk-chocolaty taste with a somewhat salty food.

   • 2017, Eric E. Wallace, “Jumping to Conclusions”, in Emperor’s Reach: A Novel of San Francisco, St. Petersburg, Fla.: BookLocker.com, Inc., page 123:

     August’s milk-chocolaty hat is an imported Italian fedora, jammed down a bit on his head so the crosswinds won’t peel it away.