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What is "skim-milk"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skim-milk

milk from which the cream has been skimmed, 1590s, from skim (v.) + milk (n.).

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skim-milk

a. (attributive of skim milk lang=en nodot=1), ''noun''.

Usage examples of "skim-milk".

More skim-milk coloured, but known by lanceolate leaves - cuckoo bushes.

They will slink away from the Government Communal Games to play solitaire in catacombs over a bowl of unsterilised skim-milk.