suckle
Plural: suckles
Verb
Verb Forms: suckled, suckling, suckles
- To feed milk from the breast or udder; to nurse.
- suck milk from the mother's breasts
- give suck to
- "The wetnurse suckled the infant"
- To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
- To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
- To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).
Noun
- A teat.
- An act of suckling
Examples
- He watched his opponent ’SUCKLE’ points from a newly opened bonus square.
- The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
suckle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsuckle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
suckle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary