Meaning

2 senses

  1. An act of suckling

    The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.

  2. (obsolete)A teat.

Examples

10 sentences

  1. She didn't suckle her daughter today.

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  2. She suckled her son on the road.

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  3. The young giraffe suckled some milk from its mother.

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  4. You have suckled your babies.

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  5. His tongue suckled a lioness.

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Origin

From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suck

From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck + -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.

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Forms

plural: suckles
Singularsuckle
Pluralsuckles

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
suckB2suckersucklingsuckysucre
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