milk-sick

1. 1.

   affected with or related to milk sickness

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Questions about milk-sick

What does milk-sick mean?

milk-sick means "affected with or related to milk sickness".

How many syllables are in milk-sick?

milk-sick has 2 syllables: milk--sick. The stress falls on "milk-".

Is milk-sick a common word?

milk-sick is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.