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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suckle
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
▪ Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time.
▪ On a bench a young woman with red hair had been suckling her baby.
▪ Once, on the dunes, she opened her dress and suckled her baby.
▪ All she is fit for is to suckle a baby, that ancestor woman, that white ghost.
▪ During most of the sixteenth century, condemnation of women who employed a wet-nurse to suckle their babies was minimal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Suckling me where your mouth suckled?
▪ But neither of these facts is of much relevance, for both apply to older children, not to suckling infants.
▪ For instance, an adult female will purr while suckling her kittens and when she courts a male.
▪ Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time.
▪ It is the woman who conceives, bears, and suckles the child.
▪ On a bench a young woman with red hair had been suckling her baby.
▪ Pups suckle for three to four weeks before gradually learning to go their own way.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suckle

Suckle \Suc"kle\, n. A teat. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Herbert.

Suckle

Suckle \Suc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Suckling.] [Freq. of suck.] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
--Addison.

The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier.
--Shak.

They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom.
--Landor.

Suckle

Suckle \Suc"kle\, v. i. To nurse; to suck. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suckle

c.1400, perhaps a causative or frequentative form of Middle English suken "to suck" (see suck), but OED suggests instead a back-formation from suckling (though this word is attested only from mid-15c.). Related: Suckled; suckling.

Wiktionary
suckle

n. (context obsolete English) A teat. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. 2 (context intransitive English) To nurse; to suck.

WordNet
suckle
  1. v. suck milk from the mother's breasts; "the infant was suckling happily"

  2. give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, bottle-feed, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed]

Wikipedia
Suckle

Suckle may refer to:

  • Suckling, or Breastfeeding
  • Suckle (band), Scottish indie pop band
  • Richard Suckle, film producer

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Suckle (band)

Suckle were an indie pop band formed in Glasgow, Scotland in the mid-1990s by former Vaselines member Frances McKee, along with her sister and co-vocalist in the group Marie McKee and another former Vaselines member James Seenan. After early releases, the line-up was completed by Elanor Taylor (keyboards, flute), Brian McEwan (guitar), his brother Kenny McEwan (drums, formerly of Long Fin Killie), and Vicky Morton (bass). The band's first release was the Hormonal Secretions EP in 1997, followed by "Cybilla" in 1998. They were then signed by Chemikal Underground, who issued "To Be King" in 2000, followed by their debut album, Against Nurture, described as "bringing to mind Nick Cave's Bad Seeds fronted by the vocal duo from Stereolab". After a further EP, The Sun Is God, the band split up. The band were also compared to Belle and Sebastian and Clannad during their time together.

While together, the band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, the first in 1997 and the second in 2000.

Frances McKee later recorded as a solo artist.

Usage examples of "suckle".

They produce from one to two at a birth, which are carried about by the mother and suckled at the breast, this peculiarity being one of the anatomical details alluded to as claiming for the bats so high a place.

Nathaniel cupped her hips, pressed his fingers into rounded flesh while he suckled, wide mouthed, both of them convulsing with the sweetness of it.

What has a young man bred abroad in a vapid Court, and suckled into Papistry, to say to the people of England?

A more direct influence, on prolactin at least, is the stimulating effect of suckling.

Cathy recoupled them as he sat beside the wall and suckled upon a thin nipple.

Somehow I did not think Soli was referring to the sewing of skins or the suckling of babies, the everyday work of the Devaki women.

Ianna had given birth to her in the old old way, had suckled her and kept her close until she was old enough to go into intensive training in the labs and automated factories that turned out the starships and other equipment the Strays needed and the Stayers coveted.

She released him with a suckling noise and stood erect, presenting her wet mouth for a kiss as he had taught her.

His open mouth claimed a pliant peak and nearly devoured her bosom with ravenous hunger, halting her breath at the sheer ecstasy of his stroking tongue and suckling caresses.

He suckled the edge of her mouth and tasted the corners and teased her tongue, and his hands roved over her arms.

She took up whoring to support Jane and the granddaughter, then a suckling babe, without telling Jane.

Many india and africana women worked naked to the waist in the fields or suckled their babies with their bare breasts on the street.

What was the command of the Lord to Saul when he went out against Agag king of the Amalekites but to slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, and when Saul would have saved Agag, what said Samuel to him?

Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them.

There was one suckling infant in arms, no young children, and no elderly.