Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not yet weaned.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Drawing or deriving nourishment from the mother's breast; not yet weaned; very young.
- Hence Figuratively, very young and inexperienced; undergoing training; in the early stage of a career; in leading-strings; “vealy.”
- Draining; exhausting.
- n. Specifically, in ceramics, absorption of the glaze from ware by the porous fire-clay saggar while in the kiln.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of sucking
Examples
“I rub it on my face and slide it between my fingers whist sucking my tongue which my family call ’sucking my bottle’!”
“There's actually what I call a sucking sound of people coming into the country and the insurgents who have political and religious motivations.”
“We’ve been too well-off for too long, so unless Obama comes up with a memory-killing drug to put in the water supply, he’ll be lucky if he’s allowed to sit out the rest of his term sucking his thumb in the Oval Office, while the governors and legislators like Rep. Ryan take the lead.”
“When you stop sucking from the gov't teet by denouncing the military, then you might not be a hypocrite.”
“That phytoplankton plays a crucial role in sucking carbon dioxide out of the air.”
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“But of course, Mr. Yglesias is more interested in sucking up to his far left cronies then he is in achieving something between Israel and the Fakestinians.”
“The only person I know good at f'ing and sucking is your mom, and I do not think Kifowit is your mother - so shut up.”
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“Your statement about her sucking is just your opinion.”
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“Bold: this seems to be a common thing with republican politicians: preach about independence and how the government sucks while sucking from the teat of the government.”
“The unit, in sucking out the air, also sucks out the water, etc which caused the motor to burn out.”
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