milkful

English

Etymology

milk +‎ -ful

Adjective

milkful (comparative more milkful, superlative most milkful)

1. (archaic, poetic) Full of milk; abounding with food.
   • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:

     milk-full vales

   • 1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97:

     The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.

References

• “milkful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.