insucking
English
Etymology
Noun
insucking (plural insuckings)
- A sucking inward.
- 1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter
- Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- Her initial response to this was a retropulsion or insucking of the tongue, so severe that speech was impossible, and she was in continual danger of swallowing her tongue.
- 1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter