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English citations of melk
- English or Scots for 'milk'
- 1894, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Hen an' 'Manthy: an exercise in dialect, page 810:
- "She do holler right smeart, fer er fac', 'Manthy. But do she kem deown wid ther bucket-melk?" "Nary drap, Hen. She jais' doan' do nothin' but ter beller-bawl 'n' yank en 'er breath 'n' beller-bawl et eont ergin." "Ther keow-critter beller-bawls like er man with 'is foot caught en er b'ar-trap, but ef yer go ter melk 'er yer doan' git ernough bucket-melk ter feed ther honn'-purp."
- 2018, Alistair Lavers, The Witches' Brew (Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN), page 29:
- 'Jusht go an' keck the focken gas pipe, an' leave the inside door open. Then tunn one o' the rengs on the gas cooker on. Make shure there's a pan on top. Put some soup or melk enn... actually — fell the focker upp fromthe taps and bung tha steam pudding in the now. We're gonnae blow this place tae smithereens.' 'Canna take shome o' ma glue, Barn?'