sucking
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sucking
- present participle and gerund of suck
Noun
[edit]sucking (countable and uncountable, plural suckings)
- An act of sucking.
- A sound or motion that sucks.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of sucking
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Adjective
[edit]sucking (not comparable)
- (archaic) Still nourished by the mother's milk, as an infant; suckling.
- (archaic, by extension, figurative) Young and inexperienced.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- Rather a shy place for a sucking county member, ay, Pynsent?
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