What does milk-and-water mean?

milk-and-water

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.60 in modern English

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Uncountable

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Obsolete; Uncountable

adj

"[…] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]"
"He gave other equally milk-and-water examples and everyone grew sleepy, waiting for the last lap: ‘Our policy has been exactly the same each time.’"

more milk-and-water (comparative) most milk-and-water (superlative)

milk-and-wateriness milk-and-watery

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