goats' milk
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1.5
- noun
- /ɡoʊts mɪlk/
:
leche de cabra
- But if you don't want to taste the goat's milk, the least you can do is stay and watch the farmer in action.
- goats' milk cheese
- fresh goats' milk
- drink goats' milk
Examples
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The chef used fresh goats' milk to create a rich, creamy cheese for the appetizer.
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This is not alcohol, it's... it's goat's milk!
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- Hello, I want to buy some goat's milk.
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I was brought up on goat's milk.
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Maybe a hot bath and a warm glass of goat's milk...
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One of their main products is goat's milk and cheese.
Blog text (23) -
In fact, I wash my face with local honey, coconut oil, and goat's milk every day!
Blog text (30) -
Cow's milk or goat's milk, we got either one.
Fiction book (1993) -
- We have goat's milk, if you'd like.
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If you raise some goats, the goats eat the grass, and you drink the goat's milk.
Blog text (16)
Surface Forms
Morphology
goats' + milk
The meaning 'milk produced by goats' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents: goat(s) indicating the source and milk as the head noun; the possessive/genitive marking merely shows origin. This simple noun + noun/genitive pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows basic morphology, so a B1 learner who knows the words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Goats' milk is simply milk from goats, like a farmer milking a goat into a bucket. Because people often 'drink' it or make 'cheese' from it, the phrase now means the dairy product made from goats.