suckle
pronunciation
How to pronounce suckle in British English:
UK [ˈsʌkl]
How to pronounce suckle in American English:
US [ˈsʌkəl]
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- Verb:
- suck milk from the mother's breasts
- give suck to
Word Origin
- suckle (v.)
- c. 1400, perhaps a causative or frequentative form of Middle English suken "to suck" (see suck), but OED suggests instead a back-formation from suckling (though this word is attested only from mid-15c.). Related: Suckled; suckling.
Example
- 1. To think such breasts must suckle slaves .
- 2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else .
- 3. The puppies went back to their mother to suckle .
- 4. There 's things you can and cannot suckle on .
- 5. And if ye find yourselves in difficulties , let another women suckle the child on behalf .