milkman

English

Etymology

milk +‎ -man

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlkmən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

milkman (plural milkmen)

Milkman on motorcycle in Uganda (1)

1. A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
   • 1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 154:

     Our milkman is a jovial character, but not one given to yodelling at the customers on his round. Only the resounding "clonk" of bottles advises us that a couple of pints have been left on the doorstep.

2. (US, slang) A black man who prefers dating white women.

Synonyms

• dairyman
• milkie (UK slang), milko (Australian slang)
• milkwoman f

Derived terms

• glint in the milkman's eye

Translations

man who delivers milk early in the morning

• Arabic: بَائِع لَبَن m (bāʔiʕ laban)
• Aromanian: lãptar m
• Asturian: llecheru m
• Belarusian: мало́чнік m (malóčnik)
• Bengali: দুধওয়ালা (dudhōẇala), গোয়ালা (bn) (gōẇala)
• Bulgarian: млека́р m (mlekár)
• Catalan: lleter m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 送奶人 (sòngnǎirén)

• Czech: mlékař (cs) m
• Danish: mælkemand c
• Dutch: melkboer (nl) m
• Estonian: piimamees (et)
• Finnish: maitomies (fi)
• French: laitier (fr) m, crémier (fr) m
• Friulian: latâr m
• Galician: leiteiro m
• German: Milchmann (de) m
• Greek: γαλατάς (el) m (galatás)
• Hindi: दूधवाला (hi) m (dūdhvālā)
• Hungarian: tejesember (hu), tejes (hu)
• Irish: fear bainne m
• Italian: lattaio (it) m
• Japanese: 牛乳屋 (ja) (ぎゅうにゅうや, gyūnyūya), 牛乳配達 (ぎゅにゅうはいたつ, gyūnyū haitatsu)
• Korean: 우유 배달원(牛乳配達員) (uyu baedarwon)
• Kyrgyz: сүтчү (sütcü)
• Luxembourgish: Mëllechmann m
• Macedonian: млекар m (mlekar)
• Maltese: tal-ħalib m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melkemann m

• Occitan: lachièr m
• Polish: mleczarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: leiteiro (pt) m
• Romanian: lăptar (ro) m
• Russian: моло́чник (ru) m (molóčnik), разно́счик молока́ m (raznósčik moloká)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: млѐка̄р m, мљѐка̄р m

  Roman: mlèkār (sh) m, mljèkār (sh) m

• Sicilian: lattaru m
• Slovak: mliekar m
• Slovene: mlekar m
• Spanish: lechero (es) m
• Swedish: mjölkutkörare c, mjölkbud (sv) n
• Tatar: cөтче (cötçe), сөт сатучы (söt satuçı)
• Turkish: sütçü (tr)
• Ukrainian: моло́чник m (molóčnyk)
• Urdu: دُودْھ والا m (dūdh-vālā)
• Venetian: latèr m
• Vietnamese: người bán sữa
• Welsh: dyn llaeth m, dyn llefrith m (North)
• Yiddish: מילכיקער (milkhiker)

Anagrams

• man milk, man-milk