Other forms: milking, milked, milks
Milk is the white drink that comes from cows and other mammals. A glass of milk, semi-skimmed milk, milk and sugar.
British bottles and cartons are colour-coded by fat: blue for whole, green for semi-skimmed, red for skimmed. Most adults in the world cannot digest lactose, and the ability to do so is a relatively recent mutation common in northern Europe. Plant milks borrow the word. Note milk it, meaning to extract every advantage; and no use crying over spilt milk.
1nounmilkThe white drink that comes from cows and other mammals.
“The children drink a glass of milk before bed.”
2verbextractTo extract every possible advantage from something.
“The newspapers milked the story for weeks.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
milk is a drink.
Old English meoluc goes back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning both milk and to milk. The verb and the noun have been the same word for as long as the language has existed.
Middle English
milk
English, today
milk
Built from
From Middle English milk. 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”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA