milkful

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English

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Etymology

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From milk +‎ -ful.

Adjective

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milkful (comparative more milkful, superlative most milkful)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Full of milk; abounding with food.
    • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes [], 3rd edition, London: [] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson []], published 1611, →OCLC:
      milk-full vales
    • 1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97:
      The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.

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