malted milk
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A powder made by mixing malted barley, flour and milk, the mixture then being dried by evaporation; initially developed as a nutritional supplement, later used as a flavouring.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A hot beverage made from a mixture of malted barley, flour, and milk.
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavour.
Australian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The diet was also changed to malted milk — from one-half to one ounce given at a feeding. The careful diet, stomach-washing with doses of one grain of cerium oxalate in one-half drachm of chalk mixture, given hourly, were ineffectual."
- "Malted milk powder is essentially a nutritional supplement, but it has a sweet, toasty milk flavor (think malt balls and malted milkshakes) that makes it a popular partner for chocolate."
- "Some milkshake recipes included malted milk powder, which would eventually become known as “malteds”. The only difference was the addition of the malted milk which was an early food supplement manufactured by Horlicks."
- "More dispensers fail with malted milk than with any one drink that I know about. There seems to be less knowledge of what a good malted milk should taste like than there is concerning any other drink."
- "One of the committee′s many marketing environment studies concerned malted milk consumption. The study revealed that while malted milk was a popular drink among young persons, virtually all of the consumption of the product took place outside the home."
- "Now that would be worth travelling half way 'round the country to see. Matty and Trev sharing a malted milk together!"
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Australian usage
- American usage