sucking adjective. ['sʌkɪŋ] LOE.
[from SUCK verb + -ING².]
1. Of a child or young animal: not yet weaned. LOE.
Bible (AV): Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child?
b. Of a bird: unfledged. Now chiefly in sucking dove. L16.
■ Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove.
c. fig. Not fully developed; budding. M17.
■ F. Marryat He looks like a sucking Nelson.

2. gen. That sucks. E16.
■ B. Capes A nightmare race over sucking quicksands.

Special collocations & comb.:
sucking-fish any fish having a suctorial disc; esp. a remora (cf. SUCKER noun 10). sucking louse: see LOUSE noun 1. sucking stomach Entomology (now rare) the expandable crop of a sucking insect.

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sucking noun. ['sʌkɪŋ] LME.
[from SUCK verb + -ING¹.]
1. The action of SUCK verb; an instance of this. LME.

2. In pl. What is obtained by suction. rare. LME.

Comb.:
sucking-cushion Anatomy a lobulated mass of fat occupying the space in the cheek between the masseter and the external surface of the buccinator; sucking-disc = SUCKER noun 9; sucking-pad = sucking-cushion above; sucking reflex the instinct to suck possessed by young mammals; sucking response the action of sucking in a young mammal as a response to a stimulus; sucking-up colloq. sycophancy.

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