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 (zh) 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)