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 (ja) (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

Anagrams

• man milk, man-milk