sucking

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

sucking

1. present participle and gerund of suck

Noun

sucking (countable and uncountable, plural suckings)

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

Derived terms

• dick-sucking
• sucking-pig

 

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)

1. (archaic) Still nourished by the mother's milk, as an infant; suckling.
2. (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?