Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cause or allow to take milk at the breast or udder; nurse.
- intransitive verb To take milk at the breast or udder of.
- intransitive verb To take in as sustenance; have as nourishment.
- intransitive verb To nourish as if with the milk of the breast; nurture.
- intransitive verb To suck at the breast or udder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give suck to; nurse, at the breast.
- To suck; nurse.
- noun A teat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A teat.
- transitive verb To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
- intransitive verb rare To nurse; to suck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
teat . - verb transitive To give suck to; to
nurse at the breast. - verb intransitive To nurse; to suck.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb suck milk from the mother's breasts
- verb give suck to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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These “Judas Goats” here want big govt. and to suckle from the breast of it.
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Totally random thought, I love how the verification words are sometimes real words or close to real words...today it's "suckle"
Sunday Sweets: More 80s Jen 2009
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Now, perhaps once male numbers were manageable enough, once we’d stopped allowing them an automatic and entitled suckle at the female teat, we could consider the possibility of educating the brutality out of them.
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His nipples had become tight raisins of need, and she brushed them with her fingers and then bent to suckle them, putting tears in his eyes as he moved against her harder when she finally sought his mouth again for a kiss.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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But viewers will hear some flat lines, some predictable lines and, well, some memorably awful lines, such as "Music is magic and magic music" or "You were so young then, mischievously playing in my puddles" or -- brace yourself -- "See their songs suckle on society like the stained lips of rape children to their wavering mother's breast."
On HBO, poetry's 'Brave New Voices' are engaging -- if less than artful Troy Jollimore 2010
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Since this is a contest whose winners will suckle daily on the teat of special interest money, the "greed" is all but implied.
Midterm Madness, Part Four: The Seven Deadly Sins The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Since this is a contest whose winners will suckle daily on the teat of special interest money, the "greed" is all but implied.
Midterm Madness, Part Four: The Seven Deadly Sins The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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They snuggle up to their mother and suckle for the three additional months that she hibernates …
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His voice lowered as he bent to suckle at my neck.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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But viewers will hear some flat lines, some predictable lines and, well, some memorably awful lines, such as "Music is magic and magic music" or "You were so young then, mischievously playing in my puddles" or -- brace yourself -- "See their songs suckle on society like the stained lips of rape children to their wavering mother's breast."
On HBO, poetry's 'Brave New Voices' are engaging -- if less than artful Troy Jollimore 2010
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