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suckle

suck·le
S s

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [suhk-uh l]
    • /ˈsʌk əl/
    • /ˈsʌk.l̩/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [suhk-uh l]
    • /ˈsʌk əl/

Definitions of suckle word

  • verb with object suckle to nurse at the breast or udder. 1
  • verb with object suckle to nourish or bring up. 1
  • verb with object suckle to put to suck. 1
  • verb without object suckle to suck at the breast or udder. 1
  • intransitive verb suckle young animal: be fed by mother 1
  • intransitive verb suckle baby: be breastfed 1

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Origin of suckle

First appearance:

before 1375
One of the 22% oldest English words
1375-1425; late Middle English sucklen; see suck, -le

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Suckle

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

suckle popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 77% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

suckle usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for suckle

verb suckle

  • bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
  • breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • drag up — old subject: raise again
  • dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.

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