Rat vs Milk - What's the difference?
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(zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus .
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, title= (informal) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
(informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
(informal) An informant or snitch.
(slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
Scab.
Vagina.
A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in, bewray.
To kill rats.
(uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
# The lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, and including the addition of limited amounts of vitamin A, vitamin D, and other carriers or flavoring ingredients identified as safe and suitable.
(countable, informal) An individual serving of milk.
(uncountable) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. Also called non-dairy milk .
* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London:
* 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
(uncountable, slang) semen
To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
* Shakespeare
To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
To express any liquid (from any creature).
(figurative) To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, etc.); to take advantage of (a situation).
* London Spectator
As an adjective rat
is .As a noun milk is
(uncountable) a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young from certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.As a verb milk is
to express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).rat
English
(wikipedia rat)Noun
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- He’s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house.
Synonyms
* (person known for betrayal) traitor (see for more synonyms ) * (informer) stool pigeonDerived terms
* black rat * brown rat * desert rat * give a rat's ass * * like rats from a sinking ship * love rat * mall rat * ratface * ratfink * ratter * rat race * rattail * ratty * rat's nest * rat-trap * ring rat * smell a rat * gym ratSee also
* mouse * rodentVerb
(ratt)- He ratted on his coworker.
- He is going to rat us out!
Synonyms
* (to betray someone to an authority) tell on, to finger or "put the finger on", bewrayAnagrams
* ----milk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . (Cognates) Cognate with (etyl) .Noun
- Table three ordered three milks'''.'' (Formally: ''The guests at table three ordered three glasses of '''milk . )
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- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
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- 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande ' mylk .
Quotations
* 2007 September 24, Chris Horseman (interviewee), Emily Harris (reporter), “Global Dairy Demand Drives Up Prices”, Morning Edition , National Public Radio *: there's going to be that much less milk' available to cover any other uses. Which means whether it's liquid ' milk or whether it's cheese or yogurt, the price gets pulled up right across the board.Derived terms
* almond milk * breast milk * chocolate milk * coconut milk * condensed milk * cowmilk, cow milk * evaporated milk * flavored milk, flavoured milk * homogenized milk * milkaholic * milk bar * milk bottle * milk chocolate * milk fever * milk float * milkmaid * milkman * milk of magnesia * milk pan * milk powder * milk product * milkshake * milk tooth * milky * Milky Way * nut milk * oat milk * rice milk * semi-skimmed milk * skimmed milk, skim milk * soy milk * whole milkReferences
*FDA standard of identity for "milk".
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The farmer milked his cows.
- I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me.
- to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows
- When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.
- They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
