let-down
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the verb phrase let down.
Pronunciation
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Noun
let-down (countable and uncountable, plural let-downs)
- (countable) A disappointment or anticlimax.
- After seeing all the advertisements, the show itself was quite a let-down.
- (countable, uncountable) The neurohormonal release of milk in dairy cows or in breastfeeding human mothers.
- 1990, WJA Payne, An Introduction to Animal Husbandry in the Tropics:
- The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk.
- 2004, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (7th edition), Penguin 2004, p. 54:
- Occasionally a baby will be caught off-guard by mother's strong let-down and he will choke and sputter a bit.
- 2010, Jan Riordan & Karen Wamback, Breastfeeding and Human Lactation (4th edition), Jones & Bartlett 2010, p. 91:
- Through oxytocin mediation, these afferent pathways become so well established that letdown can occur even when the mother merely thinks of her baby.
- 1990, WJA Payne, An Introduction to Animal Husbandry in the Tropics:
Translations
disappointment or anticlimax
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release of milk
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See also
- let down (verb)