suckle
About 0.22 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A teat.
- noun An act of suckling
The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.
- verb To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
- verb To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
- verb To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).
Similar words
give suck breastfeed lactate suck wet-nurse nurse honey succ allosuckling breastling
Often followed by
their her the them and it at from a
Word family
suckled suckles suckling
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