galactophagous

galactophagous

English

Etymology

From γαλακτοφάγος (galaktophágos, “milk-fed”).

Adjective

galactophagous (not comparable)

1. (rare) Consuming milk.
   • 1913, John Bagnell Bury, editor, The Cambridge Medieval History‎, page 432:

     The oldest explicit information concerning a Nomado-Slavic State on the lower Danube is to be found in Pseudo-Caesarius of the Nazianzus of the sixth – probably even the fourth – century A.D., viz. that of the galactophagous Phisonitae or Danubians […] and the vegetarian Slavs.

   • 1918, Tolstoy, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, translation of original by Leo Tolstoy, letter to Fet, page 141:

     I am reading Herodotus, who describes in detail and with great fidelity these same galactophagous Scythians among whom I am living.

   • 1997 January 12, Craig Helfgott, “Re: Ok, time to stand up”, in alt.callahans, Usenet‎:

     Of course, we may not have the same taste in teas, as I am one of the few (the proud, the galactophagous) that adds milk to tea.