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Sucking   /sˈəkɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Suck  v. t.  (past & past part. sucked; pres. part. sucking)  
1.
To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.
2.
To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.
3.
To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.
4.
To draw or drain. "Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe."
5.
To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. "As waters are by whirlpools sucked and drawn."
To suck in, to draw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb.
To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction.
To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption.


Suck  v. i.  
1.
To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube. "Where the bee sucks, there suck I."
2.
To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.
3.
To draw in; to imbibe; to partake. "The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less."
4.
To be objectionable, of very poor quality, or offensive; as, telemarketing calls really suck; he's a good actor, but his singing sucks. (Colloq.)


adjective
Sucking  adj.  Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. "I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing."
Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
Sucking fish (Zool.), the remora. See Remora.
Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction.
Sucking stomach (Zool.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.





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"Sucking" Quotes from Famous Books



... group of facts for you to explain. They can always be explained by one or more of the principles studied, like gravitation, water seeking its own level, or air pressure. If asked to explain why sucking through a straw makes soda water come up into your mouth, for instance, you should not merely say "air pressure," but should tell why you think it is air pressure that causes the liquid to rise through the straw. ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne
... that writhes, quivering more than the others his consorts," said I, "and whom a ruddier flame is sucking?" And he to me, "If thou wilt that I carry thee down there by that bank which slopes the most,[1] from him thou shalt know of himself and of his wrongs." And I, "Whatever pleaseth thee even so is good to me. Thou art Lord, and knowest ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri
... Draw Thou mine eyes, draw Thou my heart above, My treasure ad my heart store Thou in Thee, Brood over me with yearnings of a dove; Be Husband, Brother, closest Friend to me; Love me as very mother loves her son, Her sucking firstborn fondled on her knee: 30 Yea, more than mother loves her little one; For, earthly, even a mother may forget And feel no pity for its piteous moan; But thou, O Love of God, remember yet, Through the dry desert, through ...
— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti
... front of it light clouds were swept together—like a cloud of dust rising above a distant troop of riders. Then dark streamers of gauze seemed to stretch from the dust-cloud up over the sky, as if it came from the sun, or perhaps rather as if the sun were sucking it in to itself from the whole sky. It was only in the southwest that these streamers were dark; a little higher up, farther from the sun-glow, they grew white and shining, like fine, glistening silver gauze. They spread over the vault of heaven above us, and ...
— Farthest North - Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 • Fridtjof Nansen
... housekeepers about the price and scarcity of food that week. However, the luncheon showed no sign of scarcity, and I was much amused at the substantial and homely character of the menu, which included cold baked sucking pig among its delicacies. A favorite specimen of the confectioner's art that day consisted of a sort of solid brick of plum pudding, with, for legend, "The First Sod" tastefully picked out in white almonds on its dark surface. But it was a capital luncheon, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various


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