MILKY
What does "MILKY" mean?
Resembling milk in color or cloudiness; pale, white, and opaque.
Meanings
- Cloudy and pale white, like milk, especially of a liquid or appearance. The pond turned milky after the rain.
- Containing or made with milk. She likes her coffee milky.
- Soft, mild, or gentle to the point of weakness. He gave a milky, half-hearted excuse. figurative
Did you know?
- The word 'galaxy' itself comes from the Greek for 'milky': the ancient Greeks called our home galaxy the 'galaxias kyklos', the milky circle, for the pale band of starlight smeared across the night sky.
Word origin
From 'milk' (Old English 'meoluc') + the adjective suffix '-y'; 'milk' descends from a Proto-Germanic root tied to the verb 'to milk', meaning to draw out.
Remember it
MILKY = MILK + Y: ask 'whY is it so pale?' and the answer is that it looks like milk.
A little poem
A spilled band of stars-
the ancients looked up and called
the whole sky 'milk'.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the astronomer order a latte? She wanted something milky to match the galaxy she studies.
What it teaches
Even the ancients reached for the kitchen to name the heavens - we describe the vast with what we already hold.
Quick facts
What does MILKY mean?
Resembling milk in color or cloudiness; pale, white, and opaque.
Is MILKY a valid word?
Yes — MILKY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MILKY?
MILKY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does MILKY come from?
From 'milk' (Old English 'meoluc') + the adjective suffix '-y'; 'milk' descends from a Proto-Germanic root tied to the verb 'to milk', meaning to draw out.
What can MILKY teach us?
Even the ancients reached for the kitchen to name the heavens - we describe the vast with what we already hold.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.