vaccimulgence

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English

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Etymology

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From vacci- (cow) +‎ Latin mulgentia (milking).

Noun

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vaccimulgence (uncountable)

  1. (rare, formal) The milking of cows.
    • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, volume 2, published 1817, letter to Mr. Poole, 5, November, 1796, page 381:
      Will you try to look out for a fit servant for us,—simple of heart, physiognomically handsome, and scientific in vaccimulgence.
    • 1993, Marc Shell, “Pasiphae, or On Vaccination and Vaccimulgence”, in Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, volumes 4-5, page 34:
      Vaccimulgence. Who knows also, but that the human character may undergo strange mutations from quadrupedian sympathy, and that some modern Pasiphae may rival the fables of old.
    • 2008, Michael Innes, Carson's Conspiracy, page 97:
      'Garford. There are perplexities there, beyond a doubt. And not wholly remote from what we must call the Solo problem. Mrs Carson, so prodigal of potatoes and the products of vaccimulgence, is dotty in her own way.'