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Definition: MILKING |
MILKINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Milk |
Date "MILKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of milking, and it flows in great streams from the udder, while the cow is restless and threatening, signifies you will see great opportunities withheld from you, but which will result in final favor for you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonym: MILKINGSynonym: Cow milking. (additional references) |
Crosswords: MILKING |
| English words defined with "MILKING": Afterings ♦ milk, milking machine, milking stool. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MILKING": ARC ♦ Cattle, Cows ♦ DAIRY-EQUIPMENT REPAIRER, Durden ♦ FARMWORKER, DAIRY, FIELD-CONTACT TECHNICIAN ♦ Jacques ♦ KOSHER INSPECTOR ♦ laborer, dairy farm ♦ MANAGER, DAIRY FARM, MILK SAMPLER, MILKER, MACHINE, milkers'hands, milking-machine operator, MILKING-SYSTEM INSTALLER ♦ PULSATION RECORDER ♦ SALES-SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE, MILKING MACHINES, separate milking parlour, STABILITY GAUGE, SUPERVISOR, DAIRY FARM, SUPERVISOR, RESEARCH DAIRY FARM ♦ WHOW BALL. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MILKING": Afterings. (references) |
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Screenplays | You never told me about your cat milking days in Motown (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) They're milking rats (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) If you don't stop being so easy-going with your money, you'll land in the gutter before you're through or back on that farm where you came from, milking cows and cleaning out hen houses (Camille; writing credit: Zoe Akins) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Young woman milking cow. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Allie Mae Burroughs milking. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two people milking cows in plaza. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Milking at the dairy of the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Milking time at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pauline Clyburn, Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina, rehabilitation client, has her children milking cows. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Evan Wilkins' son milking their cow in the evening on their farm. Tallyho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina. See subregional notes (Odum) November 16, 1939. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. Sauer milking cow. Cavalier County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | East Montpelier, Vermont. Milking time on Charles Ormsbee's farm. He and his son Conrad, age eleven, are using automatic milkers. Mr. Ormsbee agreed to increase his Jersey herd from twenty-five to thirty milkers, to aid in the Food for Freedom program. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Milking cows in Pasadena, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Milking" by Chris Turner Commentary: "Milking." | "Milking A Cow" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A milking machine is attached to the teats of a farm cow." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | While the men were milking the boys would take turns in riding the tractable mare round the field |
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| "MILKING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.72% of the time. "MILKING" is used about 244 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.72% | 236 | 19,516 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 2.46% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.82% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 244 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MILKING": milking cow ♦ milking machine ♦ milking shorthorn ♦ milking stool ♦ separate milking parlour. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "MILKING": milking-side. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
milking | 374 | milking parlor | 19 |
prostate milking | 289 | man milking woman | 19 |
milking tit | 200 | milking cum | 16 |
male milking | 162 | girl milking | 16 |
milking breast | 149 | milking inflations | 15 |
cow milking | 100 | milking story | 14 |
milking machine | 72 | cow milking picture | 14 |
forced milking | 67 | milking stool | 14 |
milking woman | 65 | milking moms | 13 |
cock milking | 63 | milking slave | 13 |
milking goat | 56 | male milking story | 12 |
penis milking | 48 | penis milking machine | 12 |
man milking | 42 | male milking prostate | 11 |
milking boob | 35 | big milking tit | 11 |
prostrate milking | 31 | by hand man milking only woman | 10 |
milking nipples | 30 | milking mommas | 10 |
milking equipment | 27 | milking prostate self | 10 |
forced male milking | 20 | milking photo prostate | 9 |
milking mamas | 20 | milking mother | 9 |
milking pregnant | 20 | gay milking | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "MILKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mjeljeje, mjelje. (various references) | |
Arabic | حليب (milk), حلب (milk), إستحلاب. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | aiksippoyinnomoa (milking cow). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | доене. (various references) | |
Chinese | 挤奶 (Milked). (various references) | |
Czech | dojení. (various references) | |
Danish | malkning. (various references) | |
Dutch | melken (milk). (various references) | |
Finnish | lypsy. (various references) | |
French | traite (milked). (various references) | |
German | melkend, melken (fleece, milk). (various references) | |
Greek | άρμεγμα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חליבה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lehallgatás (interception, monitoring, watch, wire tapping), fejés (squeezing). (various references) | |
Italian | mungitura. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 搾乳 , 乳窄 (milker), 乳搾り (milker). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さくにゅう, ちちしぼり (milker). (various references) | |
Korean | 젖을 짬. (various references) | |
Manx | blieaun. (various references) | |
Mohawk | kanòntat (milking cow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilkingmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ordenha. (various references) | |
Russian | дойка, дойный, доить дойка. (various references) | |
Scottish | leigeil (allowing, raining, setting free), bleoghainn (draw milk, milk). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | muža (dairying). (various references) | |
Shona | mhou yomukaka (milking cow). (various references) | |
Spanish | ordeno. (various references) | |
Swedish | mjölkning, mjölkande. (various references) | |
Turkish | sağma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | доїльна машина (milker, milking machine). (various references) | |
Welsh | godriad. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | milce. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MILKING": overmilking. (additional references) | |
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"MILKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ilkin, miking, mikuni, miling, Milkana, milkin, Minkin, Miskine, Niklin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MILKING" (pronounced mi"lking) |
| 5 | -i" l k i ng | bilking. |
| 4 | -l k i ng | hulking, sulking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-k-l-m-n" | |
-1 letter: liking, liming, miking. | |
-2 letters: kilim. | |
-3 letters: gink, glim, kiln, king, limn, ling, link, milk, mini, mink. | |
-4 letters: gin, ilk, ink, kin, lin, mig, mil, nil, nim. | |
-5 letters: in, li, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-k-l-m-n" | |
+2 letters: grimalkin, misliking. | |
+3 letters: filmmaking, grimalkins. | |
+4 letters: filmmakings, lemminglike, overmilking. | |
+5 letters: blackmailing, locksmithing, multitasking. | |
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