milk-drunk

English

Adjective

milk-drunk

  1. (informal) Of a baby, drowsy and apparently content after consuming a large amount of milk.
    • 2001, Rozella Floranz Kennedy, BecomingMom.com, Writer's Showcase, page 405:
      Sophie had one quick feed for the road and slipped into milk-drunk slumber.
    • 2002, Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, Random House, page 111:
      But then she stretched out one little baby leg in its purple stretch-terry jumper, and then the other, and gazed into her baby's rolling, brown, milk-drunk face with delight.
    • 2009, Dana Sullivan, Unbuttoned: Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding‎[1], Harvard Common Press:
      Will I never again watch the pink moon of a nursing cheek, the eyelids sagging under the dead weight of lashes, the dopey, drooling grin of a milk-drunk baby?
    • 2023, Magdalena McGuire, Born for You‎[2], Hardie Grant Publishing:
      Inside the house, I sit on the couch with a milk-drunk Arie and check my phone.
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