sucking

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsʌkɪŋ/
Rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Hyphenation: suck‧ing

Verb

sucking

present participle and gerund of suck

Noun

sucking (countable and uncountable, plural suckings)

An act of sucking.
A sound or motion that sucks.

Derived terms

Translations

act of sucking

Arabic: مَصّ (ar) m (maṣṣ)
Bulgarian: сучене n (sučene), бозаене n (bozaene)
Czech: cucání n, sání n
Finnish: imeminen (fi), imentä
French: succion (fr) f, sucement (fr) m
German: Saugen (de) n
Hungarian: szopogás
Ido: sugo (io)
Latin: sūctus m
Macedonian: цицање n (cicanje)
Russian: соса́ние (ru) n (sosánije)
Telugu: పీల్చుట (te) (pīlcuṭa)

Adjective

sucking (not comparable)

(archaic) Still nourished by the mother's milk, as an infant; suckling.
(archaic, by extension, figurative) Young and inexperienced.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
  Rather a shy place for a sucking county member, ay, Pynsent?

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