Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not yet weaned.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Specifically, in ceramics, absorption of the glaze from ware by the porous fire-clay saggar while in the kiln.
- Drawing or deriving nourishment from the mother's breast; not yet weaned; very young.
- Hence Figuratively, very young and inexperienced; undergoing training; in the early stage of a career; in leading-strings; “vealy.”
- Draining; exhausting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, .
- adjective a feeding bottle. See under
Bottle . - adjective (Zoöl.) the remora. See
Remora . - adjective a suction pump. See under
Suction . - adjective (Zoöl.) the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
suck . - noun A sound or motion that
sucks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of sucking
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Examples
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I rub it on my face and slide it between my fingers whist sucking my tongue which my family call ’sucking my bottle’!
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There's actually what I call a sucking sound of people coming into the country and the insurgents who have political and religious motivations.
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We’ve been too well-off for too long, so unless Obama comes up with a memory-killing drug to put in the water supply, he’ll be lucky if he’s allowed to sit out the rest of his term sucking his thumb in the Oval Office, while the governors and legislators like Rep. Ryan take the lead.
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The only person I know good at f'ing and sucking is your mom, and I do not think Kifowit is your mother - so shut up.
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That phytoplankton plays a crucial role in sucking carbon dioxide out of the air.
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When you stop sucking from the gov't teet by denouncing the military, then you might not be a hypocrite.
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That phytoplankton plays a crucial role in sucking carbon dioxide out of the air.
Underwater Volcanoes Help Suck Carbon from the Air | Inhabitat 2010
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Your statement about her sucking is just your opinion.
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But of course, Mr. Yglesias is more interested in sucking up to his far left cronies then he is in achieving something between Israel and the Fakestinians.
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But of course, Mr. Yglesias is more interested in sucking up to his far left cronies then he is in achieving something between Israel and the Fakestinians.
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