vaccimulgence

English

Etymology

From vacci- (“cow”) +‎ Latin mulgentia (“milking”).

Noun

vaccimulgence (uncountable)

1. (rare, formal) The milking of cows.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, volume 2, published 1817, letter to Mr. Poole, 5, November, 1796, page 381:

     Will you try to look out for a fit servant for us,—simple of heart, physiognomically handsome, and scientific in vaccimulgence.

   • 1993, Marc Shell, “Pasiphae, or On Vaccination and Vaccimulgence”, in Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, volumes 4-5, page 34:

     Vaccimulgence. Who knows also, but that the human character may undergo strange mutations from quadrupedian sympathy, and that some modern Pasiphae may rival the fables of old.

   • 2008, Michael Innes, Carson's Conspiracy, page 97:

     'Garford. There are perplexities there, beyond a doubt. And not wholly remote from what we must call the Solo problem. Mrs Carson, so prodigal of potatoes and the products of vaccimulgence, is dotty in her own way.'