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sucking

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Adjective

HYPHEN

suck=ing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sucking has 1 sense

sucking(n = noun.act) suck, suction - the act of sucking; Array

is a kind of consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake

Derived form verb suck₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sucking, a.

Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. [1913 Webster]

"I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing." [1913 Webster]

Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. -- Sucking fish (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. -- Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction. -- Sucking stomach (Zoöl.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sucking, adj.
1 (of a child, animal, etc.) not yet weaned.
2 Zool. unfledged (sucking dove).

Idiom

sucking-disc an organ used for adhering to a surface. sucking-fish = REMORA.

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ROGET THESAURUS

sucking

Reception

N reception, admission, admittance, entree, importation, introduction, intromission, immission, ingestion, imbibation, introception, absorption, ingurgitation, inhalation, suction, sucking, eating, drinking, insertion, interjection, introit, admitting, admitted, admissable, absorbent.

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