Noun: mild
Sample Sentences
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'Let me get this for the lady,' I said to Fange, who was pulling her a pint of mild. [1998, Robert Rankin, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag, page 112:]
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But Stella shouldn't really be drunk in pints the same way our dads used to drink bitter or mild that was effectively half as strong. [2011, Pete Brown, Three Sheets to the Wind:]
Nouns inflected like mild
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English milde, from Old English milde (“mild”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to beat, pound, grind”).
2. Cognate with Scots mild, myld (“mild”), Saterland Frisian milde (“mild”), West Frisian myld (“mild”), Dutch mild (“mild”), Low German milde (“mild”), German mild (“mild”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål mild (“mild”), Icelandic mildur (“mild”), Latin mollis (“soft, gentle”), Lithuanian malonus (“pleasing, pleasant, kind”), Old Norse mildr. See: Middle English Nouns '
milde', Old English Nouns '
milde', Icelandic Nouns '
mildur', Latin Nouns '
mollis', Old Norse Nouns '
mildr'.
Verbs referencing "mild"
Greek Nouns
βλάκας.