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What is the noun for milk?

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milker
  1. An animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces.
  2. A person who milks.
  3. A milking machine.
  4. A conservative poker player who only raises the stakes on a good hand.
  5. (slang) A woman’s breast.
  6. Examples:
    1. “The last place he worked had a carousel milker that could handle 600 cows in three hours.”
      “The procedure kills bacteria from the cow or the milker or milking machine.”
      “If you get dairy goats, you'll probably want to build this nifty stanchion to make milking easy for both the milker and the milkee.”
milk
  1. (uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
  2. (countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.
  3. (uncountable) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. Also called non-dairy milk.
  4. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Another important source of nutrition is milk in various forms, such as fresh or sour milk, sour cream, buttermilk, whey, cheese, and butter.”
milkhouse
  1. A place where milk is processed into products such as butter or cheese; a dairy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The milkhouse should be well insulated so that a minimum amount of heat will be needed during winter.”
milkbox
  1. (historical) A box kept outside a house to store newly delivered milk and empty bottles to be returned to the dairy.
milkaholic
  1. One who likes to drink milk, particularly an excessive amount.
milkwoman
  1. A woman who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The milkwoman diligently filled her truck with fresh dairy products before embarking on her daily route to deliver milk to the neighborhood households.”
      “His unconsummated relationship with the milkwoman, played with a smouldering air by Barbara Flynn, was a metaphor for all his missed opportunities.”
milkman
  1. A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The milkman left a fresh bottle of milk on our doorstep before sunrise.”
      “He was a pupil at the John of Gaunt School before taking on jobs as a milkman and dustman.”
      “Milk bottles would transport milk from the dairy to your door and you would recycle that bottle each day by giving it back to your milkman.”
milkstain
  1. A spot or area that has been discolored by having absorbed milk.
milkshed
  1. A shed in which animals are milked.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the New York milkshed, meetings of producers were held in practically all the counties selling in New York City.”
      “With this laudable object in view he has written for a list of rules to be hung up in the milkshed for observance by his milkers.”
      “Albany and Schenectady Counties form a part of the milkshed of the State and produce much of the milk shipped to the populous centers.”
milkperson
  1. (nonstandard, rare) A milkman or milkwoman.
milko
  1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A milkman or milkwoman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Actually, having been denied the right to employment in my chosen occupation, makin' chemicals, and being now a milko, i can give you the inside information on this story.”
      “There was a co-ordination between the milko and his nag, of which many managers these days could only dream and hope.”
      “He grew up on the streets of South Sydney, attended Marist Brothers in Randwick, became a milko and then a referee.”
milkoholic
  1. Alternative form of milkaholic
milkpan
  1. A pan in which milk is stored.
milkfat
  1. The lipids in milk.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Zeeland and South Holland produce a lot of butter, which contains a larger amount of milkfat than most other European butter varieties.”
      “By using vegetable oil instead of milkfat, he created a cheap, butter-like substance that proved surprisingly popular with French eaters.”
      “Roundtable discussion on milkfat, dairy foods, and coronary heart disease risk.”
milkiness
  1. The property of being milky.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It was my first time with pecorino, and the salted sweet milkiness blew me away.”
      “She was sitting upright, pale-faced, with her dark hair cascading over the milkiness of her round shoulders.”
      “You should pull the negative from the developer when the highlights appear as substantial black in the general milkiness of the base side.”
milking
milklessness
  1. Absence of milk.
milkpeople
  1. plural of milkperson
milkaholics
  1. plural of milkaholic
milkoholics
  1. plural of milkoholic
milkpersons
  1. plural of milkperson
milkwomen
milkstains
  1. plural of milkstain
milkhouses
milkinesses
milksheds
  1. plural of milkshed
milkmen
milkpans
  1. plural of milkpan
  2. Examples:
    1. “Everywhere in the colonies potbakers' workshops supplied local people with plain red-clay mugs and beanpots, jugs and milkpans for kitchen and dairy.”
milkfats
milkings
milkboxes
  1. plural of milkbox
milkers
  1. plural of milker
milkos
milks
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