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单词 milched
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milchedadj.

Brit. /mɪl(t)ʃt/, U.S. /mɪltʃt/
Forms: 1600s–1700s milcht, 1800s– milched; English regional (west midlands and northern) 1800s– melched, 1800s– melshed.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: milch adj., -ed suffix1, milch v.
Etymology: In sense 1 < milch adj. + -ed suffix1. In sense 2 < milch v. + -ed suffix1.
Now English regional.
1.
a. Of an animal: (with new, old, stale, etc.) (newly) come into milk, having been in milk (for a long time), etc. Cf. new-milch adj. Now English regional.
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1648 H. Ferne Serm. 8 Two new-milcht Kine drawing the Arke of God.
1754 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 1 June A New Milch'd Ass, with a She Foal not a Week old.
1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 23 The owner made a point of never keeping a Cow that was too old Milcht, or Milk'd too long from the time of Calving; or when any Cow went off her Milk..he always replaced her with a new Milcht one.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 986 Where they [sc. calves] suck stale milched cows.
1974 D. Wilson Staffs. Dial. Words 48 New melched, what a cow is said to be for about eight weeks after it has calved.
b. Of a woman, a woman's breasts, etc.: (with full, etc.) (well) provided with milk. Obsolete. rare.
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1653 N. Hookes Miscellanea Poetica in Amanda 151 Would'st thou but wave thy modestie, And look from top to toe, Above, below, What daintie things there be, Thy milk-white, full-milch't breast, [etc.].
2. English regional. Of an animal: (with easy, hard, soft, etc.) capable of being milked (easily, with difficulty, etc.). Obsolete.
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1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 504 [A cow] who yields her milk readily is called ‘an easy melched one’.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Easy melched I like to milk Daisy, 'er's so aisy melched, an' gi'es aumust a cantle o' milk.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 314 Melched A cow is said to be hard-melched or easy-melched when she is difficult or easy to be milked.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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