milkshake

See also: milk-shake and milk shake

English

A strawberry milkshake with whipped cream on top.

Etymology

milk +‎ shake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪɫk.ʃeɪk]

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Noun

milkshake (plural milkshakes)

1. A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
2. (New England, Australia, New Zealand) A thin beverage, similar to the above, but with no ice cream or significantly less of it.
3. A beverage consisting of fruit juice, water, and some milk, as served in Southeast Asia.
4. (analogy, mechanics, informal) Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.

   This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.

5. (slang, horse racing) An alkaline supplement administered to a horse to improve its racing performance.

Synonyms

• (New England): frappe (thick beverage)
• (Rhode Island): cabinet (thick beverage)
• (Australia, and, New Zealand): thickshake (thick beverage)

Translations

milk and ice cream beverage

• Afrikaans: melkskommel
• Arabic: مِيلْك شَيْك m (milk šayk), مَخْفُوق اَلْحَلِيب m (maḵfūq al-ḥalīb)
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• Basque: irabiaki
• Belarusian: мало́чны кактэ́йль m (malóčny kaktéjlʹ)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: мле́чен ше́йк m (mléčen šéjk)
• Catalan: batut de llet m
• Chichewa: chakumwa chamkaka
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奶昔 (naai⁵ sik¹)

  Hakka: 奶昔 (nài-sî)

  Mandarin: 奶昔 (zh) (nǎixī, nǎixí)

• Czech: koktejl (cs) m
• Esperanto: laktoskuaĵo
• Estonian: redel
• Finnish: pirtelö (fi)
• French: milk-shake (fr) m, (Quebec) lait frappé m, (Suisse romande)/(New England) frappé (fr) m
• German: Milchmixgetränk (de) n, Milchmischgetränk n, Milchmix m, Milchshake (de) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: μιλκσέικ n (milkséik)
• Haitian Creole: milkchèyk, souke lèt
• Hindi: खीर (hi) f (khīr)
• Hungarian: turmix (hu)
• Icelandic: mjólkurhristingur m, sjeik m or n
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: frullato (it) m, milkshake m, frappè (it) m
• Japanese: ミルクセーキ (mirukusēki)
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• Korean: 밀크셰이크 (milkeusyeikeu)
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• Kyrgyz: сутшербет (ky) (sutşerbet)
• Latvian: kokteilis m
• Lithuanian: kokteilis m, pieno kokteilis m
• Macedonian: милкшејк m (milkšejk)
• Malay: susu kocak
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: ħalib tal-kulur
• Norman: lait d'poule m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: milkshake m

  Nynorsk: milkshake m

• Persian: میلک شیک (milk šeyk)
• Polish: shake (pl) m, koktail mleczny m
• Portuguese: batida (pt) f, vitamina (pt) f, milkshake m
• Russian: моло́чный кокте́йль m (molóčnyj koktéjlʹ), кокте́йль (ru) m (koktéjlʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мле̑чни ше̑јк m, млије̑чни ше̑јк m

  Latin: mlȇčnī šȇjk m, mlijȇčnī šȇjk m, mlijȇčnī shake m

• Slovak: koktajl m, koktejl m
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: batido (es) m, licuado (es) m
• Swahili: sharubati
• Tajik: коктейли ширӣ (tg) (kokteyl-i širi)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: นมปั่น (nohmbpan)
• Ukrainian: моло́чний кокте́йль m (molóčnyj koktéjlʹ)
• Uzbek: ichimlik (uz), sutli kokteyl (uz)
• Vietnamese: loại kem sưa, trộn (vi)
• Volapük: miligamigot
• Welsh: ysgytlaeth (cy) m

emulsion of oil and water in an engine

• French: mayonnaise (fr) f
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Verb

1. (transitive, slang, horse racing) To administer an alkaline supplement to (a horse) to improve its racing performance.
2. (transitive, informal, neologism) To throw a milkshake at (a person).

   A politician was milkshaked during the protest.

   • 2019 May 26, Stewart Lee, “Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Indeed, the day before Farage was milkshaked, Leave EU issued an unauthorised, and now withdrawn, re-edit of a Beastie Boys video, showing him and Ann Widdecombe pouring beer over their political opponents.

See also

• frappe
• coffee cabinet
• malt
• malted milk
• milkshake duck

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English milkshake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlk.ʃeːk/
• Hyphenation: milk‧shake

Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes, diminutive milkshakeje n)

1. milkshake

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French

Alternative forms

• milk-shake

Etymology

Borrowed from English milkshake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /milk.ʃɛk/

Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)

1. milkshake

Synonyms

• lait frappé (Quebec)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English milkshake

Noun

milkshake m (definite singular milkshaken, indefinite plural milkshaker, definite plural milkshakene)

1. a milkshake

References

• “milkshake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English milkshake

Noun

milkshake m (definite singular milkshaken, indefinite plural milkshakar, definite plural milkshakane)

1. a milkshake

References

• “milkshake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English milkshake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmiwk.ˈʃejk/, /ˌmiw.ki.ˈʃej.ki/

Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)

1. milkshake (milk and ice cream beverage)