milk

name

1. A surname.

   “American gay rights activist Harvey Milk was known for keeping his face and name on the front pages of San Francisco’s newspapers.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Old English meolc, meoluc (“milk”), from Proto-West Germanic *meluk (“milk”), from Proto-Germanic *meluks (“milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk, to milk”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian molke (“milk”), Dutch melk (“milk”), Dutch Low Saxon melk (“milk”), German Milch (“milk”), German Low German Melk (“milk”), Yiddish מילך (milkh, “milk”), Danish mælk (“milk”), Faroese and Icelandic mjólk (“milk”), Norn *mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Bokmål melk, mjølk (“milk”), Norwegian Nynorsk mjølk (“milk”), Swedish mjölk (“milk”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌺𐍃 (miluks, “milk”), Greek αμέλγω (amélgo, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Latvian malks, Lithuanian malkas, Belarusian малако́ (malakó, “milk”), Bulgarian мля́ко (mljáko, “milk”), Czech mléko, Macedonian мле́ко (mléko, “milk”), Polish mleko (“milk”), Russian and Ukrainian молоко́ (molokó, “milk”), Serbo-Croatian mlijéko (“milk”), Slovak mlieko (“milk”), Slovene mlẹ́ko (“milk”), Welsh blith, Tocharian A malke.

1. A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.

   “Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.”

   “2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio […] there's going to be that much less milk available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid milk or whether it's [milk that's been turned into] cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.”

2. A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans.

   “Where it does fall down, however, is its nutritional value. While oats are largely a healthy grain to include in your diet, the milk is highly diluted with water, giving it little nutritional value.”

   “For environmentally minded consumers, the news is hard to swallow: almond milk is not healthy for the planet and the popular milk substitute is especially hard on bees.”

3. An individual serving of milk.

   “Table three ordered three milks.”

4. An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.

   “I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.”

   “I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.”

5. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
6. Semen.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English milken, from Old English melcan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, the same root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulgeō (“to milk”), Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “to milk”), Albanian mjel (“to milk”), Russian молоко́ (molokó), Lithuanian mélžti, Tocharian A mālk-.

1. To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

   “The farmer milked his cows.”

   “I haue giuen Sucke, and know / How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me[…]”

2. To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.

   “to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows”

3. To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.

   “The black cow milking white milk, black hen on the nest laying white eggs.”

4. To express a liquid from a creature.

   “The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.”

   “He captures animals for zoos around the world... and milks cobra snakes for their venom.”

5. To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).

   “When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.”

   “July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.”

6. To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
7. To masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.

   “Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.”

   ““No, no, no! When a male is in chas-ti-ty,” (Clive always drew out this word and also slavery, emphasizing every syllable to give it extra importance) “he should receive regular milking to maintain good hygiene.” (Yet more kinky behavior cloaked as healthy living.) “Milking helps flush out the toxins which accumulate within the prostate gland of a chaste male.””