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sucking

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suck=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

suckinga. 
     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.

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.

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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