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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