milk-drunk

adj

milk-drunk

adj

1

Informal Of a baby, drowsy and apparently content after consuming a large amount of milk.

Sophie had one quick feed for the road and slipped into milk-drunk slumber.2001, Rozella Floranz Kennedy, BecomingMom.com, Writer's Showcase, page 405:
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.2002, Naomi Wolf, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, Random House, page 111:

2 more examples

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?2009, Dana Sullivan, Unbuttoned: Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding, Harvard Common Press:
Inside the house, I sit on the couch with a milk-drunk Arie and check my phone.2023, Magdalena McGuire, Born for You, Hardie Grant Publishing:

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