milkish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English milkish, milkisshe, melkich, equivalent to milk + -ish.
Adjective
[edit]milkish (comparative more milkish, superlative most milkish)
- Resembling the colour or consistency of milk; milky
- 1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, volume 2, page 943:
- The bus, at the end of its journey, could hardly wedge into the space between the milk truck, of which the tin cans were leaking a milkish fluid, and the hearse, huge and carapaced, an inflated black bug with tissue-colored eyes.