suckling
suh kling
- n English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
- n an infant considered in relation to its nurse
- n a young mammal that has not been weaned
- n feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
- v suck milk from the mother's breasts
the infant was suckling happily - v give suck to
- This final feast, to be eaten by hand like at a Roman or Greek banquet, would comprise the finest foods from around the world, including caviar, spit-roasted suckling pigs, black .
- Mothers have done it since the hunter-gatherer era--picking berries while suckling an infant, stirring the pot with one eye on the toddler.
- When he was not bringing wisdom out of the mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven).