MILK AND WATER

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Imperfection

Indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.

Insipidity

Adjective: bland, void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted.

Moderation

Mild as mother's milk; milk and water.

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Weakness

On its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless.

Health

Avoiding drinking raw (unpasteurized) milk and water that has not been properly chlorinated or boiled will help reduce the risk for Brainerd diarrhea and many other diseases. (references)

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Expression using "MILK AND WATER": weak as milk and water. Additional references.

Albanian

qumësht me ujë, i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), bosh (bare, bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, gassy, hollow, hot air, idle, inane, open, thin, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, white). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сладникаво сантиментален (gooey, mawkish, sloppy), безинтересен (characterless, chippy, dim, frumpish, incurious, languid, mousey, sapless, soulless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over), блудкав (insipid, mawkish, namby-pamby, sapless, unappetizing, washy). (various references)

German

verwässert (washy), seicht (facile, fordable, frail, insipid, shallow, shallowly). (various references)

Greek 

νερόβραστοσ, ανούσιοσ (flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, jejune, namby-pamby, savorless, tasteless, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, zestless). (various references)

Hungarian

sótlan beszéd, ízetlen (flavorless, flavourless, insipid, mawkish, tame, tasteless, vapid, watery). (various references)

Pig Latin

ilkmay anday aterway.(various references)

Portuguese

leite com água. (various references)

Romanian

moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flabby, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), insipid (flat, flavorless, flavourless, inane, insipid, mawkish, tame, tasteless, vapid, wishy washy), fãrã gust (flash, insipid, mawkish, unseasoned, vapid), fãrã caracter, apã de ploaie (eyewash, moonshine). (various references)

Russian 

разбавленное молоко, безвкусный (dowdy, flaring, flavorless, flavourless, gaudy, insipid, tasteless, vapid), безвольный (weak-willed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

beživotan (lifeless, sapless). (various references)

Spanish

flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loose, loosely, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky). (various references)

Swedish

urvattnad (eviscerated, insipid, watered down), tam (domestic, lame, tame), svag (faint, feckless, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, gone, impuissant, infirm, insubstantial, lame, light, low, mild, off, reckling, rickety, shaky, shallow, small, subtle, tenuous, unsound, weak, weak-kneed, weakly). (various references)

Turkish

yavan (arid, bald, crude, cut and dried, dry, frail, insipid, jaded, jejune, meager, meagre, platitudinous, prosaic, prose, prosy, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, watery), tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, insignificant, jerkwater, measly, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless). (various references)

Ukrainian

водянистий (aqueous, aquose, sloppy, soupy, washy, waterish, watery, wishy washy), невиразний (chancy, characterless, dim, elusive, expressionless, faint, featureless, foggy, hazy, indecisive, ineffective, inexpressive, nebulose, nebulous, neutral, obscure, toneless, weak, wishy washy, woolly, wooly), безвольний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

yếu ớt nhạt nhẽo, vô vị (arid, banal, drily, dry, dryasdust, dryly, dusty, insipid, platitudinarian, platitudinous, savourless, tame, tasteless, unsavoury, watery), sữa pha lõng b� i nói chuyện nhạt nhẽo, cuốn sách nhạt nhẽo, b� i nói chuyện vô vị. (various references)

Welsh

glastwr. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: almandite, diametral, laminated, marinated.

-4 letters: alderman, animated, animater, antileak, antimale, antiwear, dawnlike, dentalia, diamante, knitwear, laminate, landmark, lariated, lawmaker, mandrake, marinade, marinate, material, maternal, tamarind, terminal, tidemark, tramline, twinkled, twinkler, wartlike, waterman, wrinkled.

-5 letters: admiral, adrenal, ailment, airdate, alarmed, aliment, alkanet, amentia, amirate, animate, antired, antiwar, antlike, araneid, armlike, awaited, awaiter, detrain, dilater.