give suck
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From give + suck (verb) (bare infinitive, though now generally felt as a noun).
Verb[edit]
give suck (third-person singular simple present gives suck, present participle giving suck, simple past gave suck, past participle given suck)
- (archaic) To suckle; to give milk from the breast (to).
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIV:
- Wo be in those dayes to them that are with chylde, and to them that geve sucke.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 35:
- "She brought forth the earth from her belly. She gave suck. The earth brought forth woman and the woman brought forth the first man out of her belly."
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIV:
Translations[edit]
suckle — see suckle