sucking

Speech parts

1. sucking - Noun

2. sucking - Adjective

3. sucking - Verb

Meaning

of Suck

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

suction suck callow nurse suckling draw drawing drinking drink absorption blow intake absorb drain nursing
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Antonyms

old dampening moistening hotshot rocking dewing
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Hypernyms

consumption intake uptake ingestion

Phrases with the word

sucking face sucking fly sucking reflex blood-sucking insect self-sucking sucking off

Examples

Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Karl Marx

Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow. Vitruvius

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. Dylan Thomas

Revenge of an hundred years old hath still its sucking teeth. German Proverb

The idiot who has his eye on your wife is like a blood sucking fly. Egyptian Proverb

A calf that is sucking does not bellow. Ghana Proverb

Close letter words and terms

suckfish suckhole suckiness sucking bottle sucking face sucking fish