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milkily

Meaning of "milkily" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MILKILY

ˈmɪlkɪlɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MILKILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Milkily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES MILKILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of milkily in the English dictionary

The first definition of milkily in the dictionary is in such a way as to resemble milk, esp in colour or cloudiness. Other definition of milkily is in such a way as to taste of or be reminiscent of milk. Milkily is also spiritlessly or spinelessly.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MILKILY

balkily · baulkily · bulkily · cheekily · cockily · gawkily · huskily · jerkily · lankily · luckily · quirkily · shakily · silkily · skilly · smokily · sneakily · spookily · sulkily · swankily · unluckily

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MILKILY

milk train · milk truck · milk vetch · milk-and-water · milk-white · milken · milker · milkfish · milkier · milkiest · milkiness · milking · milking machine · milking parlour · milking shed · milking stool · milking time · milkless · milklike · milkmaid

WORDS THAT END LIKE MILKILY

flakily · flukily · friskily · kinkily · pawkily · perkily · peskily · pluckily · pokily · riskily · rockily · slinkily · snakily · snarkily · spikily · spunkily · stalkily · stickily · streakily · trickily

Synonyms and antonyms of milkily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «milkily» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MILKILY

Find out the translation of milkily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of milkily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «milkily» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

milkily
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

milkily
570 millions of speakers
en

English

milkily
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

milkily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

milkily
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

milkily
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

milkily
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

milkily
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

laiteuse
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Susu
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

milchig
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

乳白色
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

milkily
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Milkily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

milkily
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

milkily
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

दुधापासून तयार केलेले पदार्थ
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

milkily
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

milkily
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

milkily
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

milkily
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

milkily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

milkily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

milkily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

milkily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

milkily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of milkily

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MILKILY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of milkily
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «milkily».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about milkily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MILKILY»

Discover the use of milkily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to milkily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Orientalia: Vol. 63
EA 289 The letter is mainly about Milkily, whose activities have become a real threat to Abdi—Heba, and about the king's official, Pu'uru, who has abandoned Jerusalem. The king seems to have withdrawn Pu'uru from Jerusalem and stationed ...
2
Supplement to Craig's universal dictionary
MILKILY-MISEXTERED. MISPRINTED-MODIST. Milkily, milk'e-le, ad. After the manner of milk. Miming, milk'ing, s. The act of drawing milk from the breasts of an animal by the hand. Milled, mill'd, pp. or a. Passed through a mill ; beaten with the  ...
P Austin Nuttall, John Craig (F.G.S.), 1864
3
The Sugar Islands: A Collection of Pieces Written About the ...
... nor slippery. It was easy going. We passed the crater of a volcano. The air was sickly with the smell of sulphur. It was a vast vat of a cauldron, with its rocks stained green and yellow and the tepid steaming water cloudily, milkily white like  ...
Alec Waugh, 2011
4
The Devil Rides Outside
Squares mist milkily, and from the stillness and the dark the curve mounts immutably rhythmic, in ever-mounting intensity. A new gathering of momentum. And through the darkness an occasional glimpse of concentrated white. Now it begins to ...
John Howard Griffin, 2010
5
A Systemic Functional Grammar of French: From Grammar to ...
... [Place] sur la pente, then it bursts and spreads milkily over the slope, 9d material 80 middle [ ] mats pour [Proc] regagner[ ] seulement [Range] le terrain perdu. but is merely regaining the ground it has lost. There are a number of processes of ...
Alice Caffarel-Cayron, 2006
6
The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen ...
Where it was thinly applied, it has turned milkily opaque, but most of it is thick, glutinous, and highly disfiguring. Many of the lacunae and fissures created by the fragmentation of the intonaco during the detachment in 1820 have been filled with ...
Leslie H. Rainer, Angelyn Bass Rivera, 2006
7
In Translation
At home, such a sulphuric breath set me apart, and eventually drove me, from the milkily sweet smelling herd. The city, though, is full of smells. The city is a smell. Every brick or stone of the city, every blade of grass, leaks a smell s.
Annamarie Jagose, 1994
8
Nine Bells for a Man
Imlach prepared to crack him again, but the man suddenly lay his head down on the coffin box as though having a nap. An hour passed and they did not say a word. Around them a vague slush of ice assembled milkily on the water.
Peter Unwin, 2000
9
She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories
Horizontal snow that was hard and dry as salt dashed and seethed over everything, sloped up like rooftops, tricked its way across creek beds and ditches, milkily purled down city streets, stole shanties and coops and pens from a bleak ...
Ron Hansen, 2012
10
Early Reaping
She had never before sent him on a mission connected with his father's delinquencies, so he meant to fulfil this one to her entire satisfaction. As the water churned milkily backward from the side-wheels of the ferry, he dramatized just what he ...
Cale Young Rice, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MILKILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term milkily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
10x10: Day & Night review – clubbing, transcendence and …
... daylight milkily seeping through corrugated plastic windows; a second room at the rear is a plunge into darkness even in the mid-afternoon. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
The Investment Dresser: pearl earrings
They may be lustrous and milkily opalescent, qualities that are supposed to flatter the skin, but their often dreary settings can age you by about ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
3
Ruby's best bakes
Anyone who has mistakenly spread unsalted butter on their toast can testify to just how milkily bland it is compared to salted butter. The latter ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
4
Wild - Film Review
There are uncomfortable, milkily lit scenes of physical and emotional abuse – including one particularly shocking moment when she is ... «NME.com, Jan 15»
5
'Effie Gray' is a great concept, decent film
... immense credit must go to the hair and makeup team for accentuating the actress's milkily spooked, perfectly period-appropriate features. «The Desert Sun, Jan 15»
6
The return of the grundie
And for those of us for whom the ultimate portrait of aspirational glamour is a young Kate Moss, knicker-clad on the beach, or the milkily ... «Financial Times, Oct 14»
7
Film Review: 'Effie Gray'
... shorn of 21st-century perspective, while immense credit must go to the hair and makeup team for accentuating the actress's milkily spooked, ... «Variety, Oct 14»
8
Baking with salted butter
Anyone who has mistakenly or desperately spread unsalted butter on their toast can testify to just how milkily bland it is compared to salted ... «The Guardian, Jan 14»
9
Matt Preston's supermarket shopping guide
Maybe it's the fact that the ricotta looks particularly appealing and milkily fresh, or that there's a special of easy-carve lamb or some ... «Taste.com.au, Jul 13»
10
The Montmartre of War: New Chelsea Bistro Explores Colonizing …
The waitress, businesslike, bare-shouldered and milkily erotic, might have been from Wisconsin. The waiter, tall, black and Francophone, was ... «New York Observer, Apr 13»
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