| 单词 | milk-giver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk-giver milk-giver n. a person who or thing which supplies milk; also figurative. ΚΠ 1871 Littell's Living Age 13 May 396 ‘I am marking the cows, that we must sell.’.. ‘What is this? my best milk-givers!’ 1888 E. Clodd Story of Creation (1894) 129 The Marsupials, or pouched milk-givers. a1916 J. London Water Baby in On Makaloa Mat (1919) 150 She [sc. the sea], to me, is the milk giver, the life source. 1978 MLN 93 846 Pygmalion wants to resuscitate the mother, wants to create the mother, the origin, out of inanimate material, and he wants to produce what he creates by means of a phallic object: the incest is supposed to give rise to the milk-giver. 2000 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 5 Sept. c9 ‘Hey, look, Dad, they have cows here, too.’.. Of course, they were not real milk-givers. They were statues made of papier-mache. < as lemmas |
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