Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young mammal that has not been weaned.
- adjective Unweaned.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A suckler; a young animal not yet weaned.
- noun The white clover, Trifolium. repens
- noun the red clover, T. pratense
- noun the honeysuckle, Lonicera Periclymenum: so called because their flower-tubes are sucked for honey.
- Sucking, as a young mammal; not yet weaned; hence, figuratively, young and inexperienced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
- noun A small kind of yellow clover (
Trifolium filiforme ) common in Southern Europe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
infant that is still beingbreastfed (beingsuckled ) by its mother. - noun A young mammal which isn't
weaned yet (such as a (foal ) (baby horse) that is still being feed milk by its mother (dam ). - verb Present participle of
suckle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
- noun a young mammal that has not been weaned
- noun feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
- noun an infant considered in relation to its nurse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The father took the formula home and soon came the sounds the distraught parents had so longed to hear: normal suckling from a contented baby.
Deborah Cadbury's "The Chocolate Wars," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010
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The father took the formula home and soon came the sounds the distraught parents had so longed to hear: normal suckling from a contented baby.
Deborah Cadbury's "The Chocolate Wars," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010
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Particularly at one sandwich that referred to an ingredient called suckling pig.
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I did not like being described as a suckling, but every lot has its crumpled rose-leaf, and in all other respects the report of the elders was a triumph.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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The term 'suckling' in English is different from sucking, although in English and many other languages the word sucking is often used for feeding at the breast.
Chapter 24 1997
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Gor (i.e., a "suckling"), the lion's whelp (Gen. 49: 9; Jer. 51: 38, etc.).
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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They revert to early behaviours such as suckling or bed wetting.
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They revert to early behaviours such as suckling or bed wetting.
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They revert to early behaviours such as suckling or bed wetting.
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They revert to early behaviours such as suckling or bed wetting.
sionnach commented on the word suckling
lecher?
August 5, 2009
madmouth commented on the word suckling
it's an abstract noun; the root of 'lecher' is 'lick', apparently
August 5, 2009