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milky | lac |

As an adjective milky

is resembling milk in color or consistency.

As a noun lac is

lake.

milky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling milk in color or consistency.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • pails high foaming with a milky flood
  • * Arbuthnot
    • milky juice
  • (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
  • (colloquial) Cowardly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
  • (obsolete) Yielding milk.
  • * Roscommon
    • milky mothers

    lac

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m) from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca , a scale-shaped insect.
    • Derived terms
    * Ceylon lac * lac dye * lac lake * Mexican lac * seedlac * shellac * sticklac

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * lakh

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).

    • Etymology 3

    From Cadillac.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) Short for Cadillac.
    • Last night I was driving around in my lac .
  • * 1992 , Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin , Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
    • Macs drive lacs .

    Synonyms

    * (Cadillac) caddie, caddy

    Anagrams

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