suckle
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suckle
- /ˈsʌk.əl/
Rhymes with -ʌkəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck + -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.
noun suckles
- A teat. […] the body of this fish [the Mannatee] is commonly 3 yards long and one broad, slow in swimming, wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time she grazes […]
- An act of suckling The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.
verb suckles · suckling · suckled
- To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs. […] the breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood At Grecian sword, contemning.
- To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother. But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow.
- To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.). Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.
Translations
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verb to give suck to
| 日本語 | 授乳する junyū suru |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 餵奶 /喂奶 wèinǎi, 哺乳 bǔrǔ, 母乳餵養 /母乳喂养 mǔrǔ wèiyǎng |
| Português | amamentar |
| Français | allaiter |
| Deutsch | stillen, säugen |
| Italiano | allattare |
| Ελληνικά | θηλάζω thilázo |
| Română | alăpta |
| Русский | корми́ть гру́дью kormítʹ grúdʹju, вска́рмливать vskármlivatʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | mút, bú |
| العربية | رَضَّعَ raḍḍaʕa |
| עברית | הֵינִיק hēníq |
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title = {suckle},
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