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intersuck en · ADJ

Etymology

From inter- + suck.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Between sucks.
    • Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds. 2011, Marsha Walker, Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician, page 149:

intersuck en · VERB

Etymology

From inter- + suck.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) Of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.
  2. (rare) To suck mutually.
    • And when by hard wringing them the blood appeared at their ends, they pricked them with some sharp point, and then mutually entersuck't each one the others. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 26, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Forms

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intersucks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
intersucking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
intersucked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
intersucked Tense=Past lexicographic