dog-milk

See also: dog milk and dogmilk

English

Noun

dog-milk (uncountable)

Rare form of dog milk.
- 1882, [Christian] Lassen, translated by J[ohn] W[atson] McCrindle, “Lassen’s Review of the Reports of Ktêsias Concerning India”, in Ancient India as Described by Ktêsias the Knidian; […], Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.; Bombay: B. E. S. Press; London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 85:
  The reason for their name [Kynamolgoi] and their fictitious properties is evident from the circumstance that they kept big dogs for hunting wild oxen and Other wild animals. If the use of dog-milk is attributed to them, this may have also been merely an invention, because it is said elsewhere that they used also the milk of goats and of sheep.
- 1933 February 25, Mark Hellenger^[sic], “Broadways of the World”, in The Nashville Tennessean, volume 27, number 467, Nashville, Tenn.: The Tennessee Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
  When animals are raised directly in the zoo, the majority of them are fed by young dogmothers. This fact, says Oleson, seems to interest a great many people. Spinisters^[sic] especially, are highly inquisitive on the subject. “Tell us, they say,” said Mr. Oleson, and you could tell by his expression that he was none too fond of spinsters. “Does not the dog-milk that they are raised on make them tame and peaceful?[”] I always look at them and I always give them the same answer. / “‘You drink milk,’ I reply. ‘Does that make you like a cow?’ / “And they always walk away very fast.”
- 1996 September 3, “For the 'hairy' vets - 954 [1/1]”, in alt.war.vietnam‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 June 2025:
  >Woof-grrr.... (no translation necessary)
  >
  >Rin Tin Tin
  What Rinty is saying is that Phill drank too much dog-milk.