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English
Pronunciation
Verb
sucking
- present participle and gerund of suck
Noun
sucking (countable and uncountable, plural suckings)
- An act of sucking.
- A sound or motion that sucks.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
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. , volumes (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?