Milky Wayn.

Brit.

/ˌmɪlkɪ ˈweɪ/, U.S.

/ˌmɪlki ˈweɪ/

Forms: see milky adj. and way n.¹ and int.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: milky adj., way n.¹ and int.¹

Etymology: < milky adj. + way n.¹ and int.¹, after classical Latin lactea via, denoting the Milky Way (once in Ovid; 13th cent. in post-classical Latin in British sources).Other expressions denoting the Milky Way are also found in classical Latin and post-classical Latin, e.g. lacteus orbis (Cicero), lacteus circulus (Pliny); compare milky circle n. at milky adj. Compounds 2. In ancient Greek it is denoted simply by γάλα (see galactic adj.); in Hellenistic Greek also by ὁ τοῦ γάλακτος κύκλος . With sense 2a compare earlier use of milken way n. at milken adj. Compounds in the same sense; with sense 2b compare earlier use of milk way n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a in the same sense.

1. Usually with the.

a. The irregular, faintly luminous band that circles the night sky, now recognized as composed of billions of stars and corresponding to the main disc of our galaxy, in which are located most of its stars, including the sun; = galaxy n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way

wayeOE

Watling Streetc1384

galaxya1398

milky circlea1398

Milky Wayc1450

milk way1555

milk-white way1555

white circle1563

milken waya1586

milken race1596

milk circle1601

Via Lactea1615

lacteous circle1646

Milky Way1854

Walsingham Wayc1878

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 937 Se yonder, loo, the Galaxie, Which men clepeth the Milky Wey.

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 105 The Milkye way in heauen, whiche many men in England do call Watlyng streete.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 455 As we thinke the via lactea or Milky Way in heauen is occasioned by an infinite number of small starres.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 579 The Galaxie, that Milkie way Which nightly as a circling Zone thou seest Pouderd with Starrs.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 104 Far as the Solar walk, or Milky way.

a1765 C. Parkin Blomefield's Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1775) V. 839 They believed..the Milky Way was appointed by Providence to point out the particular place and residence of the virgin.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 30 Methought I lay Watching the zenith, where the milky way Among the stars in virgin splendour pours.

1820 Ld. Byron Let. 22 Apr. (1977) VII. 80 The fairness of her Skin..shines among their dusky children like the milky way.

1885 S. Smiles James Nasmyth (rev. ed.) xviii. 315 There were the prominent stars, the planets, the Milky Way—with thousands of far-off suns—to be seen.

1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 98 The statistical itch, the quid pro quo of the interactive interstitial, ectoplasmatic quantum of bodies jostling in space like the stars which compose the Milky Way.

1992 Astron. Now July 35/1 Bordering the northern Milky Way, Cepheus contains a number of interesting deep sky objects and the prototype variable star, d Cephei.

b. A galaxy. Chiefly: spec. the galaxy to which the solar system belongs. Cf. galaxy n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way

wayeOE

Watling Streetc1384

galaxya1398

milky circlea1398

Milky Wayc1450

milk way1555

milk-white way1555

white circle1563

milken waya1586

milken race1596

milk circle1601

Via Lactea1615

lacteous circle1646

Milky Way1854

Walsingham Wayc1878

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way.

1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 4 Milky Ways..so distant that the most powerful instruments were able only to distinguish a confused glimmering.

1906 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1905 260 Mean values were computed for different galactic latitudes by combining the results of regions at equal distances from the Milky Way.

1930 B. H. Baker Astron. xii. 480 The existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way was finally demonstrated by Hubble in 1925.

1955 Sci. News Let. 16 Apr. 251/2 Three different mathematical attempts..to show that the Milky Way has the same spiral structure as other ‘island universes’.

1960 R. W. Lawson tr. A. Einstein Relativity (ed. 15) App. IV. 134 A special investigation of the extra-galactic nebulae (‘milky ways’).

1987 J. Diski Rainforest vii. 80 We can't see the whole of the milky way, because we're part of it.

1997 D. Park Fire within Eye viii. 260 There remained the problem of the nebulae: are they island universes outside the Milky Way?

2. figurative.

†a. poetic (also slang). The region of a woman's breast. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun]

titOE

breastOE

mammaOE

pysea1400

mamellec1450

dug1530

duckya1533

bag1579

pommela1586

mam1611

Milky Way1622

bubby?1660

udder1702

globea1727

fore-buttock1727

tetty1746

breastwork?1760

diddy1788

snows1803

sweets1817

titty1865

pappy1869

Charleys1874

bub1881

breastiec1900

ninny1909

pair1919

boobs1932

boobya1934

fun bag1938

maraca1940

knockers1941

can1946

mammaries1947

bazooms1955

jug1957

melon1957

bosoms1959

Bristols1961

chichi1961

nork1962

puppies1963

rack1968

knob1970

dingleberry1980

jubblies1991

1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. E Whatsoeuer others say, There's alone the Milkie-way; That to beauties walkes doth goe.

1630 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion (rev. ed.) 48 From her heauie Eyne Along her Cheekes distilling christall Brine, Which downe-wards to her yuorie Brest was driuen, And had bedewed the milkie-Way of Heauen.

a1704 T. Brown Beauties to Armida in Wks. (1707) I. i. 64 Two snowy Mounts so near her Heart... Between those Hills, a Milky way there leads.

1721 A. Ramsay Tartana 243 Behold her heav'nly face and heaving milky way.

1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 247/2 Dairy, the paps... English synonyms: bubs (or bubbies), charlies,..milky way.

b. In other uses: a way which is brilliant in appearance, or which leads to heaven.

ΚΠ

1640 ‘Ben-Arod Gad’ Wandering-Jew 52 The path to Heaven, is a milky way; not a bloudy.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 60 Goodness is the Milkey-way to Jupiter's Palace.

1699 E. Ward London Spy I. vi. 14 Every now and then drop'd a Lady from her Pillion..showing the Milky-way to Bliss.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xli. 201 Leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam.

1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 93 Pleiads of people are Deployed around me, and I see The street's long outstretched Milky Way.

1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone viii. 205 Bone was able to see up the coast to Goleta and beyond, a kind of miniature electric Milky Way through which the traffic on 101 moved steadily, like a river of meteors.

Compounds

Milky Way galaxy n. the galaxy to which the solar system belongs.

ΚΠ

1968 Zeitschr. f. Astrophysik 69 112 A model of the Milky Way galaxy is derived from the Elsässer and Haug brightness distribution data.

1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1975) vii. 50 (caption) Composite photograph by all-sky cameras of our Milky Way Galaxy.

2000 Wired Feb. 185/2 The famous ‘Drake equation’.. purports to calculate the very large number of technological civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	milky way
释义	Milky Wayn. Brit. /ˌmɪlkɪ ˈweɪ/, U.S. /ˌmɪlki ˈweɪ/ Forms: see milky adj. and way n.¹ and int.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: milky adj., way n.¹ and int.¹ Etymology: < milky adj. + way n.¹ and int.¹, after classical Latin lactea via, denoting the Milky Way (once in Ovid; 13th cent. in post-classical Latin in British sources).Other expressions denoting the Milky Way are also found in classical Latin and post-classical Latin, e.g. lacteus orbis (Cicero), lacteus circulus (Pliny); compare milky circle n. at milky adj. Compounds 2. In ancient Greek it is denoted simply by γάλα (see galactic adj.); in Hellenistic Greek also by ὁ τοῦ γάλακτος κύκλος . With sense 2a compare earlier use of milken way n. at milken adj. Compounds in the same sense; with sense 2b compare earlier use of milk way n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a in the same sense. 1. Usually with the. a. The irregular, faintly luminous band that circles the night sky, now recognized as composed of billions of stars and corresponding to the main disc of our galaxy, in which are located most of its stars, including the sun; = galaxy n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way wayeOE Watling Streetc1384 galaxya1398 milky circlea1398 Milky Wayc1450 milk way1555 milk-white way1555 white circle1563 milken waya1586 milken race1596 milk circle1601 Via Lactea1615 lacteous circle1646 Milky Way1854 Walsingham Wayc1878 c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 937 Se yonder, loo, the Galaxie, Which men clepeth the Milky Wey. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 105 The Milkye way in heauen, whiche many men in England do call Watlyng streete. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 455 As we thinke the via lactea or Milky Way in heauen is occasioned by an infinite number of small starres. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 579 The Galaxie, that Milkie way Which nightly as a circling Zone thou seest Pouderd with Starrs. View more context for this quotation 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 104 Far as the Solar walk, or Milky way. a1765 C. Parkin Blomefield's Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1775) V. 839 They believed..the Milky Way was appointed by Providence to point out the particular place and residence of the virgin. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 30 Methought I lay Watching the zenith, where the milky way Among the stars in virgin splendour pours. 1820 Ld. Byron Let. 22 Apr. (1977) VII. 80 The fairness of her Skin..shines among their dusky children like the milky way. 1885 S. Smiles James Nasmyth (rev. ed.) xviii. 315 There were the prominent stars, the planets, the Milky Way—with thousands of far-off suns—to be seen. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 98 The statistical itch, the quid pro quo of the interactive interstitial, ectoplasmatic quantum of bodies jostling in space like the stars which compose the Milky Way. 1992 Astron. Now July 35/1 Bordering the northern Milky Way, Cepheus contains a number of interesting deep sky objects and the prototype variable star, d Cephei. b. A galaxy. Chiefly: spec. the galaxy to which the solar system belongs. Cf. galaxy n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way wayeOE Watling Streetc1384 galaxya1398 milky circlea1398 Milky Wayc1450 milk way1555 milk-white way1555 white circle1563 milken waya1586 milken race1596 milk circle1601 Via Lactea1615 lacteous circle1646 Milky Way1854 Walsingham Wayc1878 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 4 Milky Ways..so distant that the most powerful instruments were able only to distinguish a confused glimmering. 1906 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1905 260 Mean values were computed for different galactic latitudes by combining the results of regions at equal distances from the Milky Way. 1930 B. H. Baker Astron. xii. 480 The existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way was finally demonstrated by Hubble in 1925. 1955 Sci. News Let. 16 Apr. 251/2 Three different mathematical attempts..to show that the Milky Way has the same spiral structure as other ‘island universes’. 1960 R. W. Lawson tr. A. Einstein Relativity (ed. 15) App. IV. 134 A special investigation of the extra-galactic nebulae (‘milky ways’). 1987 J. Diski Rainforest vii. 80 We can't see the whole of the milky way, because we're part of it. 1997 D. Park Fire within Eye viii. 260 There remained the problem of the nebulae: are they island universes outside the Milky Way? 2. figurative. †a. poetic (also slang). The region of a woman's breast. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] titOE breastOE mammaOE pysea1400 mamellec1450 dug1530 duckya1533 bag1579 pommela1586 mam1611 Milky Way1622 bubby?1660 udder1702 globea1727 fore-buttock1727 tetty1746 breastwork?1760 diddy1788 snows1803 sweets1817 titty1865 pappy1869 Charleys1874 bub1881 breastiec1900 ninny1909 pair1919 boobs1932 boobya1934 fun bag1938 maraca1940 knockers1941 can1946 mammaries1947 bazooms1955 jug1957 melon1957 bosoms1959 Bristols1961 chichi1961 nork1962 puppies1963 rack1968 knob1970 dingleberry1980 jubblies1991 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. E Whatsoeuer others say, There's alone the Milkie-way; That to beauties walkes doth goe. 1630 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion (rev. ed.) 48 From her heauie Eyne Along her Cheekes distilling christall Brine, Which downe-wards to her yuorie Brest was driuen, And had bedewed the milkie-Way of Heauen. a1704 T. Brown Beauties to Armida in Wks. (1707) I. i. 64 Two snowy Mounts so near her Heart... Between those Hills, a Milky way there leads. 1721 A. Ramsay Tartana 243 Behold her heav'nly face and heaving milky way. 1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 247/2 Dairy, the paps... English synonyms: bubs (or bubbies), charlies,..milky way. b. In other uses: a way which is brilliant in appearance, or which leads to heaven. ΚΠ 1640 ‘Ben-Arod Gad’ Wandering-Jew 52 The path to Heaven, is a milky way; not a bloudy. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 60 Goodness is the Milkey-way to Jupiter's Palace. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. vi. 14 Every now and then drop'd a Lady from her Pillion..showing the Milky-way to Bliss. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xli. 201 Leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam. 1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 93 Pleiads of people are Deployed around me, and I see The street's long outstretched Milky Way. 1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone viii. 205 Bone was able to see up the coast to Goleta and beyond, a kind of miniature electric Milky Way through which the traffic on 101 moved steadily, like a river of meteors. Compounds Milky Way galaxy n. the galaxy to which the solar system belongs. ΚΠ 1968 Zeitschr. f. Astrophysik 69 112 A model of the Milky Way galaxy is derived from the Elsässer and Haug brightness distribution data. 1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1975) vii. 50 (caption) Composite photograph by all-sky cameras of our Milky Way Galaxy. 2000 Wired Feb. 185/2 The famous ‘Drake equation’.. purports to calculate the very large number of technological civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1450
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