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発音

• IPA: /mɪlt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ɪltʃ

形容詞

milch (not comparable)

1. (dated, of a cow or other livestock) Used to produce milk; dairy.
   • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle:

     so many cattle […] old cows and young cows; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce […] Texas steers.

2. (dated, of a mammal) Currently producing milk for its offspring.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:

     She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace / Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache / Hasting to feed her fawn, hid in some break.

   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

     you must house your Milch-cows

3. (obsolete) Tender; pitiful; weeping.

使用する際の注意点

• Used in terms such as milch cow or milch goat.

派生語