Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

intersuck

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-suck
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.

Intransitive verb

verb

To suck mutually.

adj

Between sucks.

Example Sentences

"And when by hard wringing them the blood appeared at their ends, they pricked them with some sharp point, and then mutually entersuck't each one the others."
"Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds."

Etymology

From inter- + suck.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: inter

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

intersucks (present, singular) intersucking (participle, present) intersucked (participle, past) intersucked (past)

Questions

What does intersuck mean?: Of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.
Where does intersuck come from?: From inter- + suck.

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