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Suckling

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Suck·ling  (sklng), Sir John 1609-1642.
English poet and courtier whose witty, unaffected works include Session of the Poets and Aglaura (both 1637).

suck·ling  (sklng)
n.
A young mammal that has not been weaned.
adj.
Unweaned.

[Middle English suklinge : souken, suken, to suck; see suck + -ling, one that is young; see -ling1.]

suckling [ˈsʌklɪŋ]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) an infant or young animal that is still taking milk from the mother
2. a very young child
[see suck, -ling1; related to Middle Dutch sūgeling, Middle High German sōgelinc]

Suckling [ˈsʌklɪŋ]
n
(Biographies / Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642) M, English, WRITING: poet, THEATRE: dramatist) Sir John. 1609-42, English Cavalier poet and dramatist
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.SucklingSuckling - English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
2.suckling - an infant considered in relation to its nurse
babe, baby, infant - a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her arms"; "it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"
3.suckling - a young mammal that has not been weaned
young mammal - any immature mammal
4.suckling - feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
alimentation, feeding - the act of supplying food and nourishment
Translations
suckling [ˈsʌklɪŋ] Nmamón/ona m/f
suckling piglechón m, lechoncillo m, cochinillo m
suckling [ˈsʌklɪŋ] adj [pig, lamb] → de lait suckling pig
suckling pig ncochon m de lait
suckling
n (old)Säugling m; (= animal)Jungtier nt; out of the mouths of babes and sucklings (Bibl) → aus dem Mund von Kindern und Säuglingen; (fig)Kindermund tut Wahrheit kund (Prov)


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At her table there were extra dishes at dinner, and the servants had vodka and roast goose or suckling pig.
She was suckling a new-born child, and another child, stark naked, was playing at her feet.
The lake, as I have hinted, was to a considerable depth exceedingly transparent; and as human infants while suckling will calmly and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two different lives at the time; and while yet drawing mortal nourishment, be still spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence; --even so did the young of these whales seem looking up towards us, but not at us, as if we were but a bit of Gulf-weed in their new-born sight.
 
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