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In some senses, milky is marked as informal, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
closest, declining, huge, known, live, own
VERB + MILKY
arm, called, explored, saw, see, stars, wave, yield
MILKY + NOUN
galaxy, others, reverend, way, way's
PREP.
from, in, on, with
adj
Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
his sword, Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:
The Pails high-foaming with a milky Flood,
Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.
milky tea; milky cocoa
Mrs. Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table.
Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30, Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below, The nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow, With milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down, Ere yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown;
[…] the servile Eries were staggering out of the corn fields laden with ripe ears; and the famished soldiers were shouting and cursing at them and tearing the corn from their arms to gnaw the raw and milky grains.
Cowardly.
Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
‘Who said there was going to be any killing?’ The lightning flared up and showed his tight shabby jacket, the bunch of soft hair at the nape. ‘I’ve got a date, that’s all. You be careful what you say, Spicer. You aren’t milky, are you?’ ‘I’m not milky. You got me wrong, Pinkie. I just don’t want another killing […]’
adjective — resembling milk in color
his sword, Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:
WiktionaryThe Pails high-foaming with a milky Flood,
Wiktionary1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 3, Prop. 3, p. 51, […] some Plants upon breaking their Vessels yield a milky Juice; others a Yellow of pecu
WiktionaryI remember the night when I first saw the Milky Way.
Tatoeba · #267016The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like ours.
Tatoeba · #278774What Jansky had observed was the 14.6m wavelength radio wave from the Milky Way's core.
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In some senses, milky is marked as informal, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.