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 and divides as milk--sick under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.