milking

verbtap; exploit

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verb tap; exploit

Antonyms for milking

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blackmail

noun. intimidation for money; money to quiet informer

nursing

adjective. gaining nourishment by suckling

Word Origin & History

Old English meoluc (West Saxon), milc (Anglian), from Proto-Germanic *meluks "milk" (cf. Old Norse mjolk, Old Frisian melok, Old Saxon miluk, Dutch melk, Old High German miluh, German Milch, Gothic miluks), from *melk- "to milk," from PIE root *melg- "to wipe, to rub off," also "to stroke; to milk," in reference to the hand motion involved in milking an animal (cf. Greek amelgein, Latin mulgere, Old Church Slavonic mlesti, Lithuanian melžu "to milk," Old Irish melg "milk," Sanskrit marjati "wipes off"). Old Church Slavonic noun meleko (Russian moloko, Czech mleko) is considered to be adopted from Germanic.

Of milk-like plant juices from late 14c. Milk chocolate is first recorded 1723; milk shake is first recorded 1889, for a variety of creations, but the modern version is only from the 1930s. Milk tooth (1727) uses the word in its figurative sense "period of infancy," attested from 17c. To cry over spilt milk is first attested 1836 in writing of Canadian humorist Thomas C. Haliburton. Milk and honey is from the Old Testament phrase describing the richness of the Promised Land (Num. xvi:13, Old English meolc and hunie). Milk of human kindness is from "Macbeth" (1605).

Example Sentences for milking

Father Tyler and the boys were at the lot feeding and milking.

It's as if you or I were to marry one of the girls out there in the yard, milking the cows.

If the udder of a milking cow becomes hard and painful, it should be fomented with warm water and rubbed with a gentle hand.

Roger did the milking and the other chores, by the light of a "bug."

He does not even appear to be willing that I should have the benefit of this night's milking.

At the shelter were several cows, used for milking, and a number of pigs.

It was certain, therefore, that if she was stolen, the thief had attended to her milking.

I recollect a milking cow which I was suspicious had the disease.

T is milking time, sir; and you shall know that I am our dairymaid.

At length the animals are rounded up into the byre, and Elspeth proceeds with the milking.