Other forms: milkmen
A milkman is a man who delivers milk to houses. The milkman comes at five.
The round nearly disappeared with supermarket milk and has come back a little with glass bottles. A milkman knew who was ill on a street before anybody else did.
1nounmilkmanA man who delivers milk to houses.
“The milkman still came three times a week in that village.”
milkman is a worker.
Middle English
milk
English
milk
English, today
milkman
Built from
From milk + -man. milk comes 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
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