suckingn.1
/ˈsʌkɪŋ/ 1. † b. transferred. = suction n. 1c. Obsolete.
a. The action of suck v.; suction. Also, an instance of this.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > sucking
sucking1382
hausture1618
insuction1883
the world > matter > physics > mechanics > fluid mechanics > [noun] > suction
suction1658
sucking1688
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxi. 8 Thanne the child growide and was don awey fro sowkyng.
14.. Tundale's Vis. 123 Thou blestful quene of kyngis emperes That gaf thi son sowkyng in a stall.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 231 Whan þe modyr wanyth here child, sche wetyth here tetys wyth sum byttere thyng, & so þe chyld felyng ofte þat bytternes leuyth his soukyng.
c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 324 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 217 Þai wechis, þat had mare care of þat swkyne þan þai had yare.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 36 Otes with her sucking, a peeler is found.
1581 R. Sempill Complaint vpon Fortoun (single sheet) Preseruit from slauchter be souking of a Beir.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 91 Meil quhilke throuch souking thay fed vpon.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 267/2 Nether must we afther his meates and suckinges, dandle it much.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 234 An Instrument or pipe..made of this forme, will cause the water by sucking to rise vp and run forth.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit (1816) 61 Reserving only one for sucking of the old ones, to keep them in milk.
1885 Daily News 13 Feb. 5/1 There are very powerful engines which do the blowing and the sucking through these tubes.
1892 J. Carmichael Disease in Children 287 The child should be fed at regular intervals from both breasts at each sucking.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [noun]
hungerc825
appetite1303
famec1515
sharpness1581
suction1615
meat-will1643
sucking1656
sharpsetness1673
esurition1678
stomach-worm1788
hunger-pain1820
yird-hunger1825
appetizement1826
yapness1828
esuriencea1834
peckishness1871
sinking feeling1890
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 10 Appetite Wanting... If there be no sucking, the forces cannot fail, and there are signs of repletion.
2. plural. What is obtained by suction. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > suckable food > food obtained by sucking
suckings1532
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. xxixv The olde soukyng whiche thou haddest of me, arne a maystred and lorn fro al maner of knowyng.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 160 To dip in my four fingers and thumb, and then to sup like a bear upon suckings.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
sucking operation n.
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1895 T. Hardy Jude i. vi. 45 She had managed to get back one dimple by..repeating the odd little sucking operation before mentioned.
sucking power n.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 272 On this occasion their sucking power is particularly serviceable.
b. † sucking-bone n. Obsolete ? a marrowbone.† sucking-pipe n. Obsolete a pipe used for drawing air or water in some direction.† sucking-tooth n. Obsolete = milk tooth n.† sucking-young adj. Obsolete young enough to be still sucking the dam.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > types of bones > [noun]
ossicle1578
ossiculum1578
sucking-bone1648
master-bone1677
key-bone1791
bonelet1833
bladelet1859
interhaemal1880
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > bones
boneeOE
marrowbonec1387
ice-bone1576
natch-bone1614
pin bone1640
sucking-bone1648
tasting-bone1850
ham-bone1855
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zuygh-been, a Sucking-bone.
sucking-cushion n.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [noun] > sucking cushion or pad
sucking-pad1889
sucking-cushiona1907
a1907 Sutton in Piersol's Human Anat. 493 The sucking cushions sometimes enlarge in adults.
sucking-pad n. a lobulated mass of fat occupying the space between the masseter and the external surface of the buccinator.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [noun] > sucking cushion or pad
sucking-pad1889
sucking-cushiona1907
1889 A. Macalister Text-bk. Human Anat. 566 The buccal fat in the child forms a lobulated..sucking-pad.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > pipe operating by suction
sucking-pipe1699
sucker1838
driven well1868
tube-well1877
1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 228 [In a Draught of Savery's Engine] G The Force Pipe. H The sucking Pipe.
1731 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 37 7 A Sucking Pipe and Grate..going into the Water, which supplies all the four Cylinders alternately.
1736 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 42 The Sucking-Pipe receives its Air only from the Room where the Machine stands.
sucking-pot n. = sucking-bottle n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > infant's bottle
sucking-pot1552
sucking-bottle1632
suck-bottle1652
titty bottle1844
bottle1848
feeding-bottle1858
nurser1882
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Suckyng pot for chyldren, aliphanus.
1843 C. A. F. Parke Let. 19 Aug. in U. Ridley Cecilia (1958) xi. 125 She uses a sucking pot, but the Old Crab thinks that she sucks in wind.
sucking reflex n. Biology the instinct to suck as possessed by the young of all mammals.
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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > young > sucking instinct
sucking reflex1923
sucking response1938
1923 T. P. Nunn Education 167 An infant is born in vigorous possession of the sucking reflex.
1974 Biol. Abstr. LIX. 2593/2 An otherwise normally developed female rabbit without ears may have lost them when still in the nest due to a ‘sucking-reflex’ among its siblings, such as that which occurs among young mice.
sucking response n. Biology the action of sucking as a response to some stimulus or influence.
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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > young > sucking instinct
sucking reflex1923
sucking response1938
1938 Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. 53 369 49 per cent of sleeping infants gave sucking responses to stimulation of the lips.
1975 Jrnl. Compar. & Physiol. Psychol. 88 796 Monitoring sucking responses to a rubber teat revealed that..the vigorous oral activity continued largely unabated.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > milk
calf's-teeth1599
fore-tooth1601
sucking-tooth1601
milk tooth1738
deciduous tooth1755
shedding tooth1799
temporary tooth1802
baby tooth1834
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 338 A guelding never casts his teeth, no not his sucking teeth, in case he were guelded before.
sucking-tube n. a tube through which liquid is sucked into the mouth.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > drinking-straw
straw1851
sucking-tube1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2442/2 The sucking-tube was used by the ancients as a domestic utensil, and also in the temples.
sucking-up n. slang sycophancy.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun]
fawninga1350
adulationc1400
papelardya1425
papelardrya1500
captation1523
clawing1548
insinuation1553
curry-favour1581
man-pleasing1588
courting1607
men-pleasing1615
supparasitation1620
sycophantizing1640
assiduity1641
ingratiating1642
licking1648
man-pleasance1656
sycophancy1657
fawnery1661
sycophantrya1677
nutting1789
tuft-hunting1789
cultivation1793
huggery1804
ingratiation1815
sycophantism1821
lickspittling1839
toadyship1839
toadyism1840
bootlicking1849
toadying1863
arse-licking1912
lickspittle1914
apple-polishing1926
pot-licking1929
brown-nosing1934
ass-kissing1936
arse-kissing1937
ass-licking1946
sucking-up1946
bum-sucking1949
love bomb1975
love-bombing1976
1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays ii. 7 ‘Thank heaven my people sent me here with a decent grub box.’ ‘But what has a grub box to do with being caned..?’ Brown asked. ‘The gentle art of sucking-up, of course... Not to the beaks.’
1978 ‘M. Innes’ Ampersand Papers i. v. 44 He wasn't doing any sucking-up act on Archie.
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the world > animals > mammals > [adjective] > young
sucking-young1657
1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility v. 110 It was a most swift Beast, and such as could not be taken, save when it was sucking-young.
C2. Applied to various organs in fishes, crustaceans, etc. adapted for use as suckers.
sucking-bowl n.
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1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom x. 132 In the male Actheres, the sucking-bowl possessed by the female does not exist.
sucking-cup n.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > sucker
acetabulum1661
sucker1681
sucking-cup1840
sucker-cup1845
sucking-foot1856
sucker-foot1870
sucker-disk1964
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 446 The two anterior [legs]..exhibiting, on the inside, a kind of rosette, formed by the muscles, and seeming to act as a sucking-cup.
sucking-disk n.
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a1832 J. E. Gray in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXI. 592/1 A dorsal tail, ending in a sucking disk.
1883 Science 1 195/2 Ambulatory tentacles..terminating..in expanded sucking-disks.
sucking-foot n.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > sucker
acetabulum1661
sucker1681
sucking-cup1840
sucker-cup1845
sucking-foot1856
sucker-foot1870
sucker-disk1964
1856 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 3) 122 The bird's foot star..which you may see crawling by its thousand sucking-feet.
sucking-mouth n.
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a1836 J. F. South Zool. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 279/2 The Sucking Mouth exhibits..three different forms, the proboscis, the promuscis, and the antlia.
sucking-spear n.
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1895 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. 467 The sucking-spears of this Insect are so long and slender as to look like hairs.
sucking-tube n.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 310 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The sucking tube, or tongue [of hymenoptera].
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† suckingn.2
Obsolete.
(See quot. 1499.)
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1499 Placitum in Blount Law Dict. (1691) (at cited word) Per Sucking, hoc est fore quiet. de illis amerciamentis, quando le Burlimen, id est, supervisores del Ringyord,..præmonit. fuerint ad imparcand. & faciend. clausuras illas simul cum vicinis suis, ille qui non venit ad talem præmonitionem amerciatus erit ad pretium unius vomeris, Anglice a Suck, prætii quatuor denar.
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suckingadj.
/ˈsʌkɪŋ/ 1. † b. absol. transl. Latin lactens, etc.: Suckling. Obsolete.
a. That sucks milk from the breast; that is still being suckled, unweaned. †sucking fere [fere n.1, companion] , a foster brother. (Cf. even-sucker n. at even adj.1 and n.2 Compounds 2b).
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adjective] > sucking (of child)
suckingc1000
nursing1841
sucky1977
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > brother > [noun] > foster-brother
foster-brothera1000
sucking ferec1384
nourished brother1485
nurse-fellow1526
fosterer1735
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 246 Ægðer ge men ge ða sucendan cild.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10465 Þa sukende children heo adrenten inne wateren.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xiii. 1 Manaen, that was the sowkynge feere of Eroud tetrarke.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 689 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 170 Hyre sowkand sowne þane [cane] scho ta.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) v. sig. Avv/1 A louynge moder, that listeth to play with her souking childe.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccclxvj A sucking babe in the cradell, not fully halfe a yeare olde.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xlix. 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child? View more context for this quotation
1743 Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 302 And ev'ry parish sucking-babe Again be nurs'd with Gin.
a1836 G. Johnson Materia Med. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 508/1 If infusion of senna be given to the nurse, the sucking infant becomes purged.
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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > suckling
suckingc975
suckerc1384
suckerelc1440
sucklingc1440
pap-hawk?a1475
milksopa1500
nursling1605
teatling1631
nursery1642
c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 16 Of muðe cildra & sukendra.
c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxxii. 25 Cniht and mædenu, sucende mid ealdum men.
a1325 Prose Psalter cxxx. 4 As þe souking is vp his moder.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. xv. 3 Sle fro man vnto womman, and litil child, and soukynge.
2.
a. Of an animal: That is still sucking its dam. See also sucking-pig n.
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the world > animals > family unit > [adjective] > young > suckling
sucking1382
suckling1830
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. vii. 9 O sowkynge loomb.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. lxiii Flesche of souking calues.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 463/2 Sokynge gryce, nefrendus.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. x. 81 The sowkin wolff furth streking brest and vdyr.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xlvi. 16 What tyme as he offred the suckynge lambes.
1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 94 Soulkynge calves.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. i. 29 Pluck the young sucking Cubs from the she Beare. View more context for this quotation
1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. Introd. A sucking-mastiff.
b. Of a bird: That is still with its mother. Now chiefly in sucking dove, echoed from Shaks. (see quot. 1600); also attributive.Cf. dialect sucking duck, gander, turkey, used figuratively = simpleton.
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the world > animals > birds > young bird > [adjective]
green1506
sucking1600
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. ii. 77 I will aggrauate my voice so, that I wil roare you as gently, as any sucking doue. View more context for this quotation
1634 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. xxii For 5 dozen and 1 sucking chickinges at 2d. ob the chick, 00 12 03ob.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xii. 299 He never had so much [sc. brains] as would make pap to a sucking gosling.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iv. 37 Some loud as the lion; some small as the sucking dove.
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 157 From the sucking-dove eloquence of Private Secretaryship, he suddenly thundered into a Boanerges!
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. xii. 229 No young sucking dove could have been more mild than that terrible enemy whom she had for years regarded as being too puissant for attack.
3. figurative.in extended use.1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. viii. 102 Most of the manufacturers placed their sons in sucking situations at fourteen or fifteen years of age.
a. Not come to maturity; not fully developed; budding.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature
green?a1300
rawa1398
indigest1398
unmatured?a1425
unripea1500
unseasonable1515
unbuilded1519
inchoate1534
unripened1561
uncivil1572
unmellowed1573
unmanured1577
unblown1587
ungrown1593
unpolished1594
rudimental1597
rude1600
unsalted1602
unseasoned1602
unlicked1612
embryon1613
unbakeda1616
unbloweda1616
unfledged1615
unmellow1615
sappya1627
embryous1628
unconcocteda1631
unkneaded1633
immature1635
sucking1648
vacuous1651
embryo1659
unelaborate1663
unmature1673
unformed1689
undeveloped1736
infantile1772
uncultivated1796
unelaborated1817
fetal1820
embryotic1823
embryonic1825
embryonary1833
sophomoric1837
seedling1843
rudimentary1851
unwrought1869
juvenescent1875
vealy1890
under-developed1892
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not used or accustomed > not used or experienced
youngOE
inexpertc1450
unfleshed1542
green1548
fresha1557
callow1580
pen-feathered1598
puisne1598
puny1602
unfledgeda1616
inexperienced1626
pin-feathered1641
sucking1648
infledgeda1661
inexperient1670
fledgeless1769
wet behind the ears1851
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xiii. lxxiv. 223 Some petty sucking Knaves their best did trie.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xvi. xcvii. 304 From sucking sneaking Schisms, untill they broke Into the monstrous amplitude of those Black Heresies [etc.].
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. i This is no Father Dominic..; this is but a diminutive sucking Fryar.
1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Pref. sig. b2 My Enemies are but sucking Critiques, who wou'd fain be nibbling ere their teeth are come.
1708 Brit. Apollo 30 July–4 Aug. You are as yet, but a sucking Young Lover.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iv. 46 He looks like a sucking Nelson.
1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) ii. 6 Told you he was a sucking Freshman, Giglamps!
1876 Nature 13 Jan. 202/2 The book before us, however, is not the book we should recommend to a sucking geometer.
b. Infantile, childishly innocent.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > innocent or inexperienced
verdant1824
sucking1842
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy x. 96 To see their simplicity—sucking simplicity, I call it.
4. That sucks down, under water, into a whirlpool, etc. †sucking sand = quicksand n.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [adjective] > drawing or sucking in
sucking1513
indrawing1589
soakinga1616
the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > quicksand
quick gravela1300
quicksanda1300
sucking sand1513
Syrtis1526
sinking sand1531
syrt1574
Serbonian boga1618
flow1819
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iii. 42 The sowcand sweltht.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vi. 45 Quhat proffitit me Sirtis, that soukand sand?
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 118 Sucking Rocks lie on the North-side of the Streights.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 117 Where through some sucking pool I will be hurl'd With rapture to the other side of the world.
1853 R. S. Hawker Prose Wks. (1893) 28 There's a nine-knot breeze above, And a sucking tide below.
1910 B. Capes Jemmy Abercraw ii. xviii. 259 It was like a nightmare race over sucking quicksands.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [adjective] > using up completely
suckingc1440
spending1589
c1440 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 246 ‘Accidia’ ys a souking sore, he traveylyth me from day to day.
Compounds
Special collocations:† sucking-paper n. Obsolete blotting-paper.† sucking stone n. Obsolete pumice.
sucking carp n. the carp-sucker, Ictiobus carpio.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Catostomidae (suckers) > unspecified and miscellaneous types
sucker1753
jumping-mullet1767
buffalo-fish1774
buffalo1789
red horse1796
sucking carp1804
carpsucker1828
hogmolly1877
hogsucker1877
suckerel1888
hog mullet1889
1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 237 Sucking Carp. Cyprinus Catastomus..: said to live chiefly by suction.
sucking louse n. a blood-sucking ectoparasite of mammals belonging to the order Siphunculata (or Anoplura).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Siphunculata > member of
sucking louse1910
1910 R. Doane Insects & Dis. iv. 54 The sucking lice..are suspected of carrying some of these same diseases.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 68/1 Sucking louse: This parasite [of pigs] is very common in New Zealand.
1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xxxvi. 223 Members of the order Anoplura, all of which are known as ‘sucking lice’ possess ‘sucking’ mouthparts borne on an elongated head.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > materials for blotting
blotting-paper1519
pin-dust1561
blotter1591
blotting-book1598
writing dust1646
writing sand1656
sucking-papera1665
pounce1704
sand1753
blotting-pad1857
blotting1872
roller1875
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 282 Flilter [sic] it through sucking Paper.
sucking stomach n. Zoology a stomach in certain invertebrates that expands so as to provide a food reservoir (formerly interpreted as the means by which the animal imbibed fluid).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > stomach
sucking stomach1886
1886 F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-keeping I. vii. 94 Cook calls the honey-sac the ‘sucking stomach’, using an old, but extremely misleading, title.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life 503 The stomodaeum..may be provided with a dilatation or so-called sucking stomach.
1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 98 The organ is then known as the food-reservoir or ‘sucking stomach’, but the latter expression is misleading and incorrect.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > volcanic rocks > lava > pumice
pumice1480
pumice stone1566
pumex1649
sucking stone1664
1664 Comenius' Janua Ling. 582 A sucking stone ful of little holes.
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