milky

English

Etymology

milk +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈmɪɫki/
• Rhymes: -ɪlki

Adjective

milky (comparative milkier, superlative milkiest)

1. Resembling milk in color/colour or consistency.
2. (colour science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark grey/gray rather than black.
3. (colloquial) Cowardly. Possibly coined by Graham Greene in the novel Brighton Rock (1938).

Translations

resembling milk in color or consistency

• Catalan: lletós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳白色 (cmn)

• Czech: mléčný (cs)
• Esperanto: lakta (eo)
• Finnish: maitoinen (fi)
• French: laiteux (fr)
• Greek: γαλακτώδης (el) (galaktódis) 

• Hungarian: tejszerű (hu)
• Ido: laktatra (io), laktea (io)
• Italian: latteo (it), lattiginoso (it)
• Lithuanian: pieniškas (lt), pieninis (lt), pieningas (lt)
• Polish: mleczny (pl) m
• Romanian: lăptos (ro)
• Spanish: lechoso (es)