milk drinkerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

milk drinker (plural milk drinkers)

1. (slang, derogatory, idiomatic) Someone who lacks experience or courage.
   • 2011 November 11, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda Softworks:

     What's a milk drinker like you doing out here? Go home to your mother.

   • 2022, Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier‎, Random House, →ISBN:

     That milk drinker over there with the electrical apparatus for spies, he claims to be a bishop, but I'm not afraid of fellows like that.

   • 2023, Anna Smaill, Bird Life: a novel, Scribe Publications, →ISBN:

     'What a milk drinker,' said Michael, which was his worst insult at the time.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see milk,‎ drinker.

参考

• milquetoast

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