milkman

English

Etymology

milk +‎ -man

Noun

milkman ‎(plural milkmen)

1. A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.

Synonyms

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

Translations

man who delivers milk early in the morning

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Aromanian: lãptar m
• Asturian: llecheru m
• Catalan: lleter m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 送奶人 ‎(sòngnǎirén)

• Czech: mlékař m
• Danish: mælkemand c
• Dutch: melkboer (nl) m
• Finnish: maitomies (fi)
• French: laitier (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
• Italian: lattaio (it) m

• Japanese: 牛乳屋 ‎(ぎゅうにゅうや, gyūnyūya), 牛乳配達 ‎(ぎゅにゅうはいたつ, gyūnyū haitatsu)
• Luxembourgish: Mëllechmann m
• Macedonian: млекар m ‎(mlékar)
• 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)
• Sicilian: lattaru m
• Spanish: lechero (es) m
• Swedish: mjölkutkörare c, mjölkbud n
• Turkish: sütçü (tr)
• Venetian: latèr m
• Vietnamese: người bán sữa
• Yiddish: מילכיקער ‎(milkhiker)

Derived terms

• glint in the milkman's eye