单词 | unmilked |
释义 | unmilkedadj. 1. Of a female animal (esp. a cow or ewe): that has not been milked. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > milked > not unmilked1588 undrawn1820 1588 B. Dowe Dairie Bk. Good Huswiues sig. B3v, in T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. (new ed.) If the Kine be not well milked and stroked, or some of them left vnmilked, it is a marring to the Kine, for thereby they will the rather grow drie, and be the worse milch long time after. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongemolcken, vnmilked. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 518 The ewes..with distended thighs Unmilk'd, lay bleating. 1835 J. Hall Tales of Border 60 The cow, that had been standing unmilked, came lowing towards me. 1882 W. G. Baker Geogr. Reader: Asia, Afr., Amer. 226 It is a milky juice extracted from the American agave, a plant which if left unmilked sends forth a stem fifteen feet high. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey ix The ewes hung about their pens unmilked, bleating distressfully with bursting udders. 1997 J. Peyton Without Benefit of Laundry ii. 27 In the fields there were only unmilked cattle. 2. Of tea, coffee, chocolate, cereal, etc.: not mixed with milk, without milk. ΚΠ 1838 Lancaster Gaz. 10 Feb. 1/4 A bed of pine-branches, a supper of salt pork, biscuit, and unmilked tea in a tin pot. 1875 G. Haven Our Next-door Neighbor xiii. 410 The fry, and the tortillas, and the unmilked coffee, and the poor water, just made the dinner passable. 1910 A. Blackwood Lost Valley 85 Drinking unmilked tea strong enough to kill men who had not covered thirty miles of hard ‘going’. 1986 R. LeBeau Trigger Guard xiii. 182 Smoke, rich and dark grey as unmilked chocolate, was rolling out of the fourth floor doorway. 2003 R. Blackston Flabbergasted xxx. 247 With my corn flakes piled high but unmilked in a pasta bowl. 2008 Daily Post (N. Wales) (Nexis) 7 June 4 The man carrying a beaker of unmilked coffee to a table in the glass-roofed cafe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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