milt
/mɪlt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
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1
Syllables
4
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Meaning
noun
The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt, another in the braine[…]."
- "Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall."
- "Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush."
Etymology
From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.
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Wiktionary places this term in Food.