milk
/mɪlk/ verb C2- To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). · The farmer milked his cows.
- To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. · to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
- Of a dairy cow, to produce milk.
- 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.
- 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.
- To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.
- 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.
He/she/it milks · Past milked · Past participle milked · -ing form milking
Verb forms
- Base form
- milk
- He/she/it
- milks
- Past
- milked
- Past participle
- milked
- -ing form
- milking
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“A milk boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel.
I shall now add a little milk to make the mixture palatable, and on presenting it to the dog we find that he laps it up readily enough.”
Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking furiously.
It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto.
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