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insuck

verb

Etymology

From Middle English insouken, equivalent to in- + suck. Cognate with Saterland Frisian iensuge (“to suck in, absorb”), West Frisian ynsûge (“to suck in”), Dutch inzuigen (“to suck in”), German Low German insugen (“to suck in, soak up”), German einsaugen (“suck in, absorb, soak up”), Swedish insuga (“to inhale, suck in, pick up”), Icelandic innsjúga (“to suck in”).

  1. inherited from insouken

Definitions

  1. To suck in

    To suck in; inhale; absorb; soak up.

    • The first course was soup, and as the younger used his spoon, his lips reached forth to meet it, at the same time he insucked his breath, which made a particular noise.
    • [...] a wavering or trembling of the haypiles as if the hay itself took breath: insucks & outflows, faint wave motions rippling across low flat haystack is the giveaway [...]
    • The terrible wound of mouth peeled and slithered, insucked and garbled a single word: [...]

  2. The act or process of sucking in

    The act or process of sucking in; absorption.

    • The timing of the insuck of semen in relation to sperm capacitation (the process that renders sperm capable of fertilizing an egg) has been discussed critically by Levin (2002).

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for insuck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA