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单词 skim-milk
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skim-milkn.

Etymology: < skim v. + milk n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskim-milk.
1. Milk with the cream skimmed off or otherwise removed. Also in figurative context.
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skim-milk1598
skimmed milka1722
Blue John1869
skim1885
scald milk1886
semi-skimmed1981
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 32 I could deuide my selfe, and go to buffets, for mouing such a dish of skim milke [1623 skim'd Milk] with so honorable an action. View more context for this quotation
a1712 W. King Old Cheese in Misc. Poems This is Skim-milk, and therefore it shall go.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 297 He..gives first new, then skim milk.
1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 63 The skim-milk was included in the butter account.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 382/1 He lived principally upon ‘parritch’ and skim milk.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 132 If fat be removed from the milk as in ‘skim’ milk, rickets follows.
figurative.1778 Love-feast 11 Craft's blue skim-Milk is best for Tools to lap.1872 Punch 4 May 180/2 The genuine outpouring of the milk and cream, and none of the skim-milk of human kindness.1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 7/1 The idea prevailed that the cream had been extracted from the..revelations, leaving little but skim milk behind.
2. attributive, as skim-milk cheese, etc.
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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1012 In making skim-milk-cheeses the milk is set in the leads or pans as usual.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 220 It's no skim~milk story, I do assure you.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 15/2 On the whole it is a better cheese than our Suffolk skim~milk cheese.
1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 38 On the adoption of the skim-milk treatment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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