Meaning of lactifluous | Babel Free

Definitions

flowing with milk

Examples

“Me. But how does that appear⟳? Og. Oh, the nun at Constantinople that gave it said so. Me. It may be she had it of St. Bernard. Og. I believe⟳ she had. Me. He, when he was very old, had the happiness to taste⟳ milk from the same nipple which the child Jesus sucked, whence I wonder⟳ he was not rather called Lactifluous than Mellifluous.”

“But the pronouncing aright of California names is only a part of the duty. There needs to be a present⟳ crusade for the preservation of our historical names from oblivion.¶ It is not so much the lactifluous tenderfoot who is our danger in this case, but the wax-witted Philistines of the Post⟳ Office Department and the railroads; two Boeotian despots that have⟳ a great deal⟳ to do with place⟳ names and who have⟳ committed some of the most cold-blooded murders known to etymology.”

“On March⟳ 1 a bleary-eyed, drop-horned and also knock-kneed 9-year-old Friesian cow named Bridge Birch (above) of Moortown Farm, Hampshire, England, concluded a lactifluous year by producing her 45,081st pound of milk.”

“The bare teats of the human females bored out from this two-dimensional undergrowth like⟳ the barrels of lactifluous guns.”

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