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Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryResembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk. · Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black. · Containing (an especially large amount of) milk. · Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
From Middle English mylky, melky; equivalent to milk + -y. Compare with Saterland Frisian moalkig (“milky”), West Frisian molkich (“milky”), Dutch melkig (“milky”), German Low German melkig (“milky”), German milchig (“milky”), Danish mælkig (“milky”), Swedish mjölkig (“milky”), Icelandic mjólkugur (“milky”). Doublet of milchig.
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