milk name
noun
A name given to a Chinese child at one month old, later superseded by more formal names but occasionally used, especially as an endearment.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in John Francis Davis (1795–1890), colonial governor and Chinese scholar. After Chinese nǎimíng from nǎi breasts, milk; to breastfeed + míng name.
- phantasmagory
- phantasmal
- phantasmality
- phantasmally
- phantasmascope
- phantasmatic
- before and after
- before Christ
- before-going
- beforehand
- before-life
- beforeness
- before one can (or has time to) draw breath
- before one can say Jack Robinson
- before one knows where one is (or before one knows it)
- before (or after) the fact
- before (or in front of or under) one's (very) eyes
- before (or since) the rinderpest
- beforesaid
- before-tax
- before the mast
- before the wind
- before time
- beforetimes
- before you can say knife