drink milk

drink milk
   Indian (of a baby)
   to drown
   The Parsees set a higher value on male children and drowned unwanted females in milk:
    ... if it were a daughter, Bapaiji swore she would make it drink milk; all good women, so she contended, hated their sex. (Desai, 1988)

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