intersuck

verb

Etymology

From inter- + suck.

  1. derived from *sewg-
  2. derived from *sūkaną — “to suck, suckle
  3. inherited from *sūkan
  4. inherited from sūcan — “to suck
  5. inherited from souken
  6. prefixed as intersuck — “inter + suck

Definitions

  1. Of cows

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

  2. To suck mutually.

    • 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.
  3. Between sucks.

    • Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for intersuck. 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