单词 | milkily |
释义 | milkilyadv. In a manner characteristic of or resembling milk; with milk or milkiness. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adverb] > as milk milkily1872 1872 R. D. Blackmore Maid of Sker III. lxiii. 231 These bright red Devonshire cows..even now streaming milkily. 1881 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 15 247 The shell is milkily transparent. 1903 N. Munro in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 813/2 The byre was warm and odorous milkily. 1936 P. Fleming News from Tartary 359 The gorge in the bottom of which the boiling torrent writhed milkily. 1966 A. C. Rich Necessities of Life 34 The sky is getting milkily white, a sac of light is ready to burst open. 1983 S. Naipaul Hot Country iii. 44 Light glowed milkily. 1999 Crafts July–Aug. 23/2 In this case the imagery is delineated by different degrees of transparency, from brightly clear to milkily opaque. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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