Suckling

Word SUCKLING
Character 8
Hyphenation suck ling
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Suckling"

What do we mean by suckling?

A young mammal that has not been weaned. noun

Unweaned. adjective

A suckler; a young animal not yet weaned. noun

The white clover, Trifolium. repens noun

The red clover, T. pratense noun

The honeysuckle, Lonicera Periclymenum: so called because their flower-tubes are sucked for honey. noun

Sucking, as a young mammal; not yet weaned; hence, figuratively, young and inexperienced.

A young child or animal nursed at the breast. noun

A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe. noun

An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother. noun

A young mammal which isn't weaned yet (such as a (foal) (baby horse) that is still being feed milk by its mother (dam). noun

Present participle of suckle. verb

English poet and courtier (1609-1642) noun

A young mammal that has not been weaned noun

Feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast noun

An infant considered in relation to its nurse noun

An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.

A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Suckling

The word "suckling" in example sentences

The father took the formula home and soon came the sounds the distraught parents had so longed to hear: normal suckling from a contented baby. ❋ Carolyn See (2010)

Particularly at one sandwich that referred to an ingredient called suckling pig. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I did not like being described as a suckling, but every lot has its crumpled rose-leaf, and in all other respects the report of the elders was a triumph. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

The term 'suckling' in English is different from sucking, although in English and many other languages the word sucking is often used for feeding at the breast. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Gor (i.e., a "suckling"), the lion's whelp (Gen. 49: 9; Jer. 51: 38, etc.). ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

They revert to early behaviours such as suckling or bed wetting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then they eat a giant feast, which may consist of foods such as suckling pig, "reisbrei" (a sweet cinnamon), white sausage, macaroni salad, and many regional dishes. ❋ Daniellef99 (2009)

There are gilded paintings by Sienese and Florentine artists—stigmataed saints, stern unhappy angels, stiff Madonnas with their baby-men Christs suckling from apple-round breasts. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

A must-order are the sliders of beer, bacon and butter-braised suckling pig, with pickles and crispy shallots on potato rolls $14. ❋ Kimberly Chou (2011)

Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The "suck you sliders" of beer, bacon and butter-braised suckling pig, with pickles and crispy shallots on potato rolls is pictured here. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Arriving in Pollença in the early evening we checked into a phenomenally good-value hotel on the beach, Sis Pins (+34 971 867050, hotelsispins.com), and at nearby Celler La Parra (+34 971 865041, cellerlaparra.com) we enjoyed a fine dinner of more frito Mallorquín, homemade croquetas de jamón and suckling pig, all washed down with several flagons of excellent albariño, a white wine from Terras Gauda, in Galicia. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Macbeth refers to pity as a "naked baby babe" in his soliloquy, his Lady tells him which she would smash a conduct of a suckling tot during her breast rsther than than exclude to be masculine sufficient to seize power; later, Lady Macduff's tiny child is murdered prior to her eyes by a thugs who kill her too. ❋ Admin (2009)

“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bercow is a jumped up little tit with a Napoleon complex suckling at the taxpayer tit for all he can get. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mostly, we do not like our own men that much, either, and find them to be whiners and blamers and big, hairy, suckling, and arrogant babies who give next to nothing back. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

His body stilled under me, his teeth slid out of me, and his suckling decreased, fading to gentle licking in seconds. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

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