Galactophagist

Galactophagist (pronounced gal-a-toph-agyst or ga-lact-o-fay-jist)

(1) One who drinks milk.

(2) One who subsists on milk.

Circa 1870: A Modern English construct from the Ancient Greek γαλακτικός (galaktikós) (milky), the construct being γάλα (gála) (milk) + phago (to eat; a glutton) from φαγών (phagṓn) or φάγος (phágos) + -ist (the suffix used to create noun forms, from the Old French -iste and the Classical Latin -ista, from the Ancient Greek -ιστής (-istḗs) from the verbal suffix -ίζω (-ízō) and related to -τής (-tḗs) (the agent-noun suffix)).  Other useful words in the family include galactagogue, galactic, galactin, galactodensimeter, galactometer, galactophagous, galactophorous, galactopoietic, galactose, galactosemia, galactosis and galactoid.

Lindsay Lohan in the 2004 advertising campaign “got milk?” by US dairy farmers and milk processors.

Lindsay Lohan v E-Trade Securities LLC, New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County, No. 004579/2010

In 2010, one of Lindsay Lohan’s more unusual forays into litigation was settled prior to reaching trial.  In the Supreme Court of New York, Ms Lohan had filed suit for US$100 million against online investment site E-Trade, in connection with their Super Bowl ad featuring a "milkaholic" baby girl named Lindsay.  The claim was based on the allegation the commercial was mocking her on the basis of some drug and alcohol related matters which had involved the police, saying the work additionally improperly invoked her “likeness, name, characterization, and personality” without permission, violating her right of privacy.  In the statement of claim, the actress sought US$50 million in compensatory damages and US$50 million in exemplary damages as well as demanding E-Trade cease and desist running the commercial and turn over all copies to her.  One interesting technical legal point raised was that Ms Lohan enjoyed the same “single-name” recognition as celebrities such as talk-show host Oprah (Winfrey) or the singer Madonna (Ciccone).

The E-Trade commercial had been broadcast during the Super Bowl on 7 February 2010 as part of a series built around the theme “babies who play the markets”, and attracted an audience of around 106 ½ million viewers in the US market, then a record number.  E-Trade filed a statement of defense in which it said the claims were “without merit”, and that Lindsay Lohan wasn’t the world's only Lindsay, noting Lindsay was in 2008 the 380th most popular name for new-born American girls,, down somewhat from 241th in 2004 when Mean Girls was released.  Grey Group, the advertising agency which produced the commercial later added the “milkaholic Lindsay” was named after a member of its account team although this apparently wasn’t added to the statement of defense.  After some months, a settlement was reached between the parties, both sides bound by a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).