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Definitions for Milking

[1] an opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young.
[2] this liquid as secreted by cows, goats, or certain other animals and used by humans for food or as a source of butter, cheeses, yogurt, etc.
[3] any liquid resembling this, as the liquid within a coconut, the juice or sap of certain plants, or various pharmaceutical preparations.
[4] to press or draw milk from the udder or breast of.
[5] to extract something from as if by milking.
[6] to get something from; exploit: The swindler milked her of all her savings.
[7] to extract; draw out: He's good at milking laughs from the audience.
[8] to yield milk, as a cow.
[9] to milk a cow or other mammal.
[10] cry over spilled milk , to lament what cannot be changed or corrected; express sorrow for past actions or events: Crying over spilled milk will do you no good now.
[11] a whitish nutritious fluid produced and secreted by the mammary glands of mature female mammals and used for feeding their young until weaned the milk of cows, goats, or other animals used by man as a food or in the production of butter, cheese, etc Related adjectives: lacteal, lactic
[12] any similar fluid in plants, such as the juice of a coconut
[13] any of various milklike pharmaceutical preparations, such as milk of magnesia
[14] cry over spilt milk to lament something that cannot be altered
[15] to draw milk from the udder of (a cow, goat, or other animal)
[16] (intr) (of cows, goats, or other animals) to yield milk
[17] (tr) to draw off or tap in small quantities to milk the petty cash
[18] (tr) to extract as much money, help, etc, as possible from to milk a situation of its news value
[19] (tr) to extract venom, sap, etc, from

Words related to Milking

milkcream, buttermilk, half-and-half, extort, drain, wring, evoke, suck, extract, bleed, condensed, raw, skim, formula, whole, goat, chalk, pasteurized, evince, exhaust

Words nearby Milking

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Origin of Milking

before 900; Middle English; Old English meol(o)c, (Anglian) milc; cognate with German Milch, Old Norse mjōlk, Gothic miluks; akin to Latin mulgēre, Greek amélgein to milk

Other words from Milking

milk·less , adjective
o·ver·milk , verb
un·milked , adjective
well-milked , adjective

Word origin for Milking

Old English milc; compare Old Saxon miluk, Old High German miluh, Old Norse mjolk

Synonyms for Milking

bleed, drain, evoke, extort, extract, suck, wring, elicit, empty, evince, exhaust, express, fleece, press, pump, siphon, use, draw off, impose on, let out, take advantage, take out