milkish

English

Etymology

From Middle English milkish, milkisshe, melkich, equivalent to milk +‎ -ish.

Adjective

milkish (comparative more milkish, superlative most milkish)

1. Resembling the colour or consistency of milk; milky
   • 1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, volume 2, page 943:

     The bus, at the end of its journey, could hardly wedge into the space between the milk truck, of which the tin cans were leaking a milkish fluid, and the hearse, huge and carapaced, an inflated black bug with tissue-colored eyes.

Anagrams

• khilims