milkshake

See also: milk-shake and milk shake

English

A strawberry milkshake with whipped cream on top.

Etymology

milk +‎ shake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlk.ʃeɪk/, [ˈmɪɫk.ʃeɪk]

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Noun

milkshake (plural milkshakes)

1. A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
2. (New England, Australia, New Zealand) A thin beverage, similar to the above, but with no ice cream or significantly less of it.
3. A beverage consisting of fruit juice, water, and some milk, as served in Southeast Asia.
4. (mechanics, informal) Accidental emulsion of oil and water in an engine.

   This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.

5. (slang, horse racing) An alkaline supplement administered to a horse to improve its racing performance.

Synonyms

• (thick beverage): frappe (New England), cabinet (Rhode Island), thickshake (Australia, New Zealand)

Derived terms

• milkshakelike
• milkshakey
• milkshake duck

Translations

milk and ice cream beverage

• Afrikaans: melkskommel
• Arabic: مِيلْك شَيْك m (milk šayk), مَخْفُوق اَلْحَلِيب m (maḵfūq al-ḥalīb)
• Armenian: կաթնային կոկտեյլ (katʻnayin kokteyl)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: süd kokteyli
• Basque: irabiaki
• Belarusian: мало́чны кактэ́йль m (malóčny kaktéjlʹ)
• Bengali: মিল্কশেক (milkśek)
• Bulgarian: мле́чен ше́йк m (mléčen šéjk)
• Catalan: batut de llet m
• Chichewa: chakumwa chamkaka
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奶昔 (naai⁵ sik¹)

  Hakka: 奶昔 (nài-sî)

  Mandarin: 奶昔 (zh) (nǎixī, nǎixí)

• Czech: koktejl (cs) m
• Danish: milkshake c
• Dutch: milkshake (nl) m
• Esperanto: laktoskuaĵo, laktokirlaĵo
• Estonian: redel (et)
• Finnish: pirtelö (fi)
• French: milk-shake (fr) m, (Quebec) lait frappé (fr) m, (Suisse romande)/(New England) frappé (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Milchmixgetränk (de) n, Milchmischgetränk n, Milchmix m, Milchshake (de) m
• Greek: μιλκσέικ n (milkséik)
• Haitian Creole: milkchèyk, souke lèt
• Hindi: खीर (hi) f (khīr)
• Hungarian: turmix (hu)
• Icelandic: mjólkurhristingur m, sjeik m or n
• Igbo: mịlkshek
• Indonesian: susu kocok
• Irish: creathán bainne m
• Italian: frullato (it) m, milkshake (it) m, frappè (it) m
• Japanese: ミルクセーキ (mirukusēki)
• Kazakh: сүт коктейлі (süt kokteilı)
• Korean: 밀크셰이크 (milkeusyeikeu)
• Kyrgyz: сутшербет (ky) (sutşerbet)
• Latvian: kokteilis m
• Lithuanian: kokteilis m, pieno kokteilis m
• Macedonian: милкшејк m (milkšejk)
• Malay: susu kocak
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: ħalib tal-kulur
• Norman: lait d'poule m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: milkshake m

  Nynorsk: milkshake m

• Persian: میلک شیک (milk šeyk)
• Polish: koktajl mleczny m, shake (pl) m
• Portuguese: batida (pt) f, vitamina (pt) f, milkshake m
• Russian: моло́чный кокте́йль m (molóčnyj koktéjlʹ), кокте́йль (ru) m (koktéjlʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мле̑чни ше̑јк m, млије̑чни ше̑јк m

  Latin: mlȇčnī šȇjk m, mlijȇčnī šȇjk m, mlijȇčnī shake m

• Slovak: koktajl m, koktejl m
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: batido (es) m, licuado (es) m, milkshake (es) m
• Swahili: sharubati
• Swedish: milkshake (sv) c
• Tajik: коктейли ширӣ (tg) (kokteyli širī)
• Tamil: மில்க் ஷேக் (milk ṣēk)
• Telugu: మిల్క్ షేక్ (milk ṣēk)
• Thai: นมปั่น (nohmbpan)
• Ukrainian: моло́чний кокте́йль m (molóčnyj koktéjlʹ)
• Uzbek: ichimlik (uz), sutli kokteyl (uz)
• Vietnamese: loại kem sưa, trộn (vi)
• Volapük: miligamigot
• Welsh: ysgytlaeth (cy) m

emulsion of oil and water in an engine

• French: mayonnaise (fr) f

beverage consisting of fruit juice, water and sometimes milk

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰沙 (zh) (bīngshā)

• Portuguese: vitamina (pt) f

Verb

milkshake (third-person singular simple present milkshakes, present participle milkshaking, simple past and past participle milkshaked)

1. (transitive, slang, horse racing) To administer an alkaline supplement to (a horse) to improve its racing performance.
2. (transitive, informal, neologism) To throw a milkshake at (a person).

   A politician was milkshaked during the protest.

   • 2019 May 26, Stewart Lee, “Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Indeed, the day before Farage was milkshaked, Leave EU issued an unauthorised, and now withdrawn, re-edit of a Beastie Boys video, showing him and Ann Widdecombe pouring beer over their political opponents.

See also

• frappe
• coffee cabinet
• malt
• malted milk

Danish

Noun

milkshake c (singular definite milkshaken, plural indefinite milkshakes)

1. milkshake

Declension

Declension of milkshake

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	milkshake	milkshaken	milkshakes	milkshakene
genitive	milkshakes	milkshakens	milkshakes'	milkshakenes

Further reading

• “milkshake” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English milkshake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlk.ʃeːk/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: milk‧shake

Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes, diminutive milkshakeje n)

1. milkshake

French

Alternative forms

• milk-shake

Etymology

Borrowed from English milkshake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /milk.ʃɛk/

Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)

1. milkshake

   Synonym: (Quebec) lait frappé

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English milkshake.

Noun

milkshake m (definite singular milkshaken, indefinite plural milkshaker, definite plural milkshakene)

1. a milkshake

References

• “milkshake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English milkshake.

Noun

milkshake m (definite singular milkshaken, indefinite plural milkshakar, definite plural milkshakane)

1. a milkshake

References

• “milkshake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmiw.kiˈʃej.ki/ [ˌmiʊ̯.kiˈʃeɪ̯.ki]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmiw.kiˈʃej.ki/ [ˌmiʊ̯.kiˈʃeɪ̯.ki]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmiw.keˈʃej.ke/ [ˌmiʊ̯.keˈʃeɪ̯.ke]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmil.kɨˈʃɐj.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃɐj.kɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmil.kɨˈʃɐj.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃɐj.kɨ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmil.kɨˈʃej.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃej.kɨ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmil.kɨˈʃej.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃej.kɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmil.kɨˈʃe.kɨ/ [ˌmiɫ.kɨˈʃe.kɨ]

Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)

1. milkshake (milk beverage with or without ice cream)

   Synonym: batido

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English milkshake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /milɡˈʃeik/ [milɣ̞ˈʃei̯k]
• Rhymes: -eik

Noun

milkshake m (plural milkshakes)

1. milkshake (milk and ice cream beverage)
   • 2011, José Miguel Aguilera, Ingeniería Gastronómica, Ediciones UC, →ISBN, page 120:

     La manera de estabilizar una espuma por largos períodos es rigidizando las paredes de manera de obtener una matriz muy espesa como en los milkshakes, semisólida como en las sustancias (marshmallows), o definitivamente sólida como en los ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015, Thalita Rebouças, ¡¿En serio, amiga?!, VR Editoras, →ISBN:

     Fue sirviendo las mesas hasta llegar a la nuestra, con los milkshakes y... un licuado de plátano. Que nadie pidió.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2017, Emma Sepúlveda, Gringosincrasias: Cómo sobrevivir en Estados Unidos y entender su idiosincrasia, Editorial Catalonia, →ISBN:

     Cuando piden cinco hamburguesas con tres bolsitas de papas fritas, una cajita con un tremendo pedazo de pie de manzana, y dos milkshakes, en el Burger King, no tendrían para qué sentirse culpables al pedir los 3 litros de Coca Cola ...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.