milch cown.

Brit.

/ˈmɪl(t)ʃ ˌkaʊ/, U.S.

/ˈmɪltʃ ˌkaʊ/

Forms: see milch adj. and cow n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: milch adj., cow n.¹

Etymology: < milch adj. + cow n.¹ Compare West Frisian melke ko , Middle Dutch melke coe , Middle Low German melke kō , Middle High German melcke ku (German (archaic) melke kuh ), and (reflecting a full compound with first element ultimately from the same Germanic base) Old High German melckuo (German Melkkuh ). Compare slightly later milk cow n.

1. A cow in milk or yielding milk; a cow bred or kept for milking. See also milch adj. 1a. Also (occasionally) in extended use: a species of animal whose secretions provide nourishment for a different species.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives milk

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1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 57 (MED) I wul my wyf haf half my mylche kye.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337/2 Mylche cowe, Bassaris, vel vacca mulsaria.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxx^v Melche kye and draught oxen: woll eate a close moche barerre than any other fatte kye or oxen.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G5^v And so solde the former barren cowe with hir adulterate calfe, for a melche cowe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 353 I haue a hundred milch-kine to the pale.

1637 in D. G. Hill Dedham (Mass.) Rec. (1892) III. 27 Yt medowe..shall become a somer pasture for milch Cowes.

1675 in M. Bodfish Probate Inventories Smethwick Residents 1647–1747 22 Item two mellch cowes.

1708 Boston News-let. 18 Oct. 4/2 Strayed on Tuesday last the 19th Currant, out of a Pasture in North-Boston, a black Milch Cow.

a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 178 He cannot but approve Mac-Neil's conduct, in supplying..any of his tenants with as many Milch-cows, as he may chance to lose.

1789 W. Dunlap Father i. i, in Mass. Mag. Oct. 621 We overtook a very modest milch cow.

1805 R. Heber Jrnl. 18 Aug. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. ii. 65 He..kept above a hundred and twenty milch cows, and three hundred goats.

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xvii. 65 Aphides and Cocci, which are the milch kine of our little pismires.

1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 15 The milch cow which barely pays the expense of keeping and care is a ‘dead head’ yielding no profit.

1879 J. Hingston Austral. Abroad ix. 102 China, as a Nation, is as weak and defenceless now as a milch cow.

1900 Notes & Queries 5 May 360/1 It was considered beneficial to the milch kine to have a donkey with them.

1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism ii. 128 He owned the only milch cow on board and sold the milk at 2d. a quart.

1955 Times 11 Aug. 7 Who, having no cow themselves, live milkless in the midst of milch cows and pasture.

1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xvi. 160 The Company made the annual passage by the Broadway in considerable comfort.., taking with them a milch-cow to provide en route for tea.

2. figurative. [Compare Middle French, French vache à lait. (1551)] .

a. A ready source, esp. of regular income or profit; a person from whom money is easily drawn.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe

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1582 C. Fetherston Dialogue agaynst Dauncing sig. C7 Ignoraunce was..the best milch cowe that euer they did grasse.

1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 40 So profitable a Milch-cowe as the English Trade was vnto the Lowe Countries.

1617 J. Chamberlain Let. 19 Apr. (1939) II. 72 That he had ben a goode milch-cow to..Dixon..and that he had yeelded 200^li a yeare.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Milch-kine, a Term us'd by Goalers, when their Prisoners will bleed freely to have some Favor, or be at large.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit xii. 21 John's Cause was a good milch Cow, and many a Man subsisted his Family out of it.

1792 G. Colman Poor Old Hay Market i, in Plays (1981) I. 7 John Bull's a Milch Cow, hush! Let all the Actors loose about Town. John pities—find room somewhere, I warrant—John pays. Then a Subscription Theatre. John downs with his dust.

1836 J. F. Davis Chinese I. vi. 196 The Hong merchants are the veritables vaches à lait, the real milch cows, but the foreign trade is the pasture in which they range.

1863 T. C. Keefer in H. Y. Hind Eighty Years' Progress Brit. N. Amer. 232 Alterations and additions to the plans..were ordered..more for the chief contractor's benefit than for that of the work; and to such an extent was this carried, that this road was styled his ‘milch cow’, to be drawn upon at will.

1885 Church Times 18 Dec. 993/4 The..private patron..far more frequently viewed his advowson as a milch-cow for his private profit.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 809/1 The Creoles who found..their country looked on as a milch cow.

1968 P. Warner Sieges of Middle Ages vi. 123 As the war dragged on for the remaining six years of Richard's life the first payment was not the last, and England was used as a milch-cow for a long futile campaign.

1983 P. Kurth Anastasia (1985) III. xii. 342 The weeklies couldn't get enough of her. ‘I am the milch cow for the journalists,’ Anastasia complained.

b. In the Second World War (1939–45): a supply ship for German U-boats. Now historical.

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1947 S. E. Morison Hist. U.S. Naval Operations in World War II I. xiv. 312 By the fall of 1942 Admiral Doenitz was operating large supply submarines in the vicinity of the Azores. These ‘milch cows’, as our Navy called the 1600-tonners, delivered fuel, provisions, fresh water and torpedoes.

1961 Mil. Affairs 25 162/2 This paid off on one occasion..when the Germans were arranging ‘milch cow’ rendezvous for their U-boats bound for the South Atlantic.

1973 Publishers Weekly 18 June 62/3 A German ‘milch-cow’, or U-boat supply vessel.

1984 Amer. Hist. Rev. 89 1406/1 Knowledge of which [sc. the ‘Enigma’ codes] enabled the Allies to..concentrate the HUK groups at refuelling rendezvous points of the ‘milch cow’ submarines and their fuel-hungry charges.

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

单词	milch cow
释义	milch cown. Brit. /ˈmɪl(t)ʃ ˌkaʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɪltʃ ˌkaʊ/ Forms: see milch adj. and cow n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: milch adj., cow n.¹ Etymology: < milch adj. + cow n.¹ Compare West Frisian melke ko , Middle Dutch melke coe , Middle Low German melke kō , Middle High German melcke ku (German (archaic) melke kuh ), and (reflecting a full compound with first element ultimately from the same Germanic base) Old High German melckuo (German Melkkuh ). Compare slightly later milk cow n. 1. A cow in milk or yielding milk; a cow bred or kept for milking. See also milch adj. 1a. Also (occasionally) in extended use: a species of animal whose secretions provide nourishment for a different species. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives milk milch cow1424 milk cow1450 dairy cow1656 milcher1707 milker1801 1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 57 (MED) I wul my wyf haf half my mylche kye. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337/2 Mylche cowe, Bassaris, vel vacca mulsaria. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxx^v Melche kye and draught oxen: woll eate a close moche barerre than any other fatte kye or oxen. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G5^v And so solde the former barren cowe with hir adulterate calfe, for a melche cowe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 353 I haue a hundred milch-kine to the pale. View more context for this quotation 1637 in D. G. Hill Dedham (Mass.) Rec. (1892) III. 27 Yt medowe..shall become a somer pasture for milch Cowes. 1675 in M. Bodfish Probate Inventories Smethwick Residents 1647–1747 22 Item two mellch cowes. 1708 Boston News-let. 18 Oct. 4/2 Strayed on Tuesday last the 19th Currant, out of a Pasture in North-Boston, a black Milch Cow. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 178 He cannot but approve Mac-Neil's conduct, in supplying..any of his tenants with as many Milch-cows, as he may chance to lose. 1789 W. Dunlap Father i. i, in Mass. Mag. Oct. 621 We overtook a very modest milch cow. 1805 R. Heber Jrnl. 18 Aug. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. ii. 65 He..kept above a hundred and twenty milch cows, and three hundred goats. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xvii. 65 Aphides and Cocci, which are the milch kine of our little pismires. 1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 15 The milch cow which barely pays the expense of keeping and care is a ‘dead head’ yielding no profit. 1879 J. Hingston Austral. Abroad ix. 102 China, as a Nation, is as weak and defenceless now as a milch cow. 1900 Notes & Queries 5 May 360/1 It was considered beneficial to the milch kine to have a donkey with them. 1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism ii. 128 He owned the only milch cow on board and sold the milk at 2d. a quart. 1955 Times 11 Aug. 7 Who, having no cow themselves, live milkless in the midst of milch cows and pasture. 1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xvi. 160 The Company made the annual passage by the Broadway in considerable comfort.., taking with them a milch-cow to provide en route for tea. 2. figurative. [Compare Middle French, French vache à lait. (1551)] . a. A ready source, esp. of regular income or profit; a person from whom money is easily drawn. 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C7 Ignoraunce was..the best milch cowe that euer they did grasse. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 40 So profitable a Milch-cowe as the English Trade was vnto the Lowe Countries. 1617 J. Chamberlain Let. 19 Apr. (1939) II. 72 That he had ben a goode milch-cow to..Dixon..and that he had yeelded 200^li a yeare. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Milch-kine, a Term us'd by Goalers, when their Prisoners will bleed freely to have some Favor, or be at large. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit xii. 21 John's Cause was a good milch Cow, and many a Man subsisted his Family out of it. 1792 G. Colman Poor Old Hay Market i, in Plays (1981) I. 7 John Bull's a Milch Cow, hush! Let all the Actors loose about Town. John pities—find room somewhere, I warrant—John pays. Then a Subscription Theatre. John downs with his dust. 1836 J. F. Davis Chinese I. vi. 196 The Hong merchants are the veritables vaches à lait, the real milch cows, but the foreign trade is the pasture in which they range. 1863 T. C. Keefer in H. Y. Hind Eighty Years' Progress Brit. N. Amer. 232 Alterations and additions to the plans..were ordered..more for the chief contractor's benefit than for that of the work; and to such an extent was this carried, that this road was styled his ‘milch cow’, to be drawn upon at will. 1885 Church Times 18 Dec. 993/4 The..private patron..far more frequently viewed his advowson as a milch-cow for his private profit. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 809/1 The Creoles who found..their country looked on as a milch cow. 1968 P. Warner Sieges of Middle Ages vi. 123 As the war dragged on for the remaining six years of Richard's life the first payment was not the last, and England was used as a milch-cow for a long futile campaign. 1983 P. Kurth Anastasia (1985) III. xii. 342 The weeklies couldn't get enough of her. ‘I am the milch cow for the journalists,’ Anastasia complained. b. In the Second World War (1939–45): a supply ship for German U-boats. Now historical. ΚΠ 1947 S. E. Morison Hist. U.S. Naval Operations in World War II I. xiv. 312 By the fall of 1942 Admiral Doenitz was operating large supply submarines in the vicinity of the Azores. These ‘milch cows’, as our Navy called the 1600-tonners, delivered fuel, provisions, fresh water and torpedoes. 1961 Mil. Affairs 25 162/2 This paid off on one occasion..when the Germans were arranging ‘milch cow’ rendezvous for their U-boats bound for the South Atlantic. 1973 Publishers Weekly 18 June 62/3 A German ‘milch-cow’, or U-boat supply vessel. 1984 Amer. Hist. Rev. 89 1406/1 Knowledge of which [sc. the ‘Enigma’ codes] enabled the Allies to..concentrate the HUK groups at refuelling rendezvous points of the ‘milch cow’ submarines and their fuel-hungry charges. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1424
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