suckle
/ˈsʌk.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] the body of this fish [the Mannatee] is commonly 3 yards long and one broad, slow in swimming, wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time she grazes […]"
- "The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast."
- "[…] the breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood At Grecian sword, contemning."
- "Let us indulge them; they are not weak, suckled by Wisdom, taught to walk by Virtue."
- "A relief of a goat suckling her young."
- "But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow."
Etymology
From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck + -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.