Milkman (Milker, or Milk-woman), subs. (venery).—A trader in masturbation; a shagster (q.v.).
Milk-shop (Milk-walk, or Milky
way), subs. (common).—The paps.
For synonyms see Dairies.
1640. Wit's Recr. [Hotten], 363. Her breast. . . . Bears up two globes. . . . Which headed with two rich round Rubies, show Like wanton Rose-buds. . . . And in the milky-valley that's between, sits Cupid.
Milk-sop, subs. (old: now recognised).—A
coward; a ladified
man; a novice; a meacock (q.v.).
1390. Chaucer, Monkes Tale, b. 15396. 'Allas!' sche saith, 'that ever I was i-schape, To wedde a mylk-sop or a coward ape.'
1590. Greene, Mourning Garment [Grosart (1881-6), ix. 173]. What is it for mee to pinne a fayre meacocke and a witty milksop on my sleaue who dare not answere with their swords in the face of the enemy?
1593. Harvey, Pierces Superer. [Grosart (1885), ii. 17]. Are milksop Muses such whiteliuer'd Trontes?
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Biancone, a goodly, great milke-*sappe, a fresh-water soldier.
1600. Shakspeare, Much Ado, v. 1. Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milk-*sops.
1603. Dekker, Patient Grissill [Grosart (1886), v. 167]. Fye, Signior; no musicke in your mouth but battles, yet a meere milkesop?
1618. Field, Amends for Ladies, iv. 2. Thou art a faint-hearted fellow, a milk-sop.
1621. Burton, Anat., p. 143. 'Tis now come to that pass that he is no gentleman, a very milk-sop, a clown.
1660. Tatham, The Rump, i. [Maidment (1873), p. 202]. A meer milk-*sop . . . A wheybrain'd fellow.
1892. Evening Standard, 25 Nov. p. 4, c. 5. Everyone knows how boys dread being set down as milksops.
Milk-woman, subs. (Scots' colloquial).—1.
A wet-nurse. Green milk-woman
= a woman recently
delivered.
2. (venery).—See Milkman.
Milky ones, subs. phr. (common).—White
linen rags. Milky-duds
= white clothes.—Matsell
(1859).
Mill, subs. (pugilistic).—1. A fight; a set-to (q.v.)
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib's Memorial, p. 36. We, who're of the fancy-lay, As dead hands at a mill as they.
1823. W. T. Moncrieff, Tom & Jerry, ii. 1. Cribb. Thank'ye, gentleman, thank'ye—but as I see by our sporting oracle, 'The Dispatch,' there's a mill on foot—I'll give you, 'May the best man win.'
1834. Ainsworth, Rockwood, 'The Double Cross.' The mill is o'er, the crosser crost, The loser's won, the vinner's lost!
1843. Comic Almanack, 378, 'Stoppage of the Mills.' Indeed, I never saw the like, Our minds with wonder it must fill, Though mills ensue when people strike, The strikes have stopp'd full many a mill.
1853. Diogenes, ii. p. 134. Bell's Life the other day told us of two noted pugilists who (we quote the very words), 'had a mill for 200l.' When the decimal coinage is established, they will be able to have no less than five 'mils' for a penny.
1856. T. Hughes, Tom Brown's School-Days, Pt. II. ch. v. A champion was picked out on each side tacitly, who settled the matter by a good hearty mill.
1860. The Druid, Post and Paddock, 'The Fight for the Belt.' By sea and by land, in village and town, Nothing whatever seemed to go down, Save the latest on dit of the mill.
1862. The Cork Examiner, 28 March. Since this little event there have been . . . some very exciting little mills.
1883. Saturday Review, 31 March, p. 398, col. 1. This apparently harmless
