sucking
/ˈsʌkɪŋ
/adjective
(Of a child or animal) not yet weaned: sucking piglets suffer from incoordination...
- The meat is said to be tender and well flavoured, resembling chicken or sucking pig.
- The menu is full of expensive ingredients: sucking pig and Argentine steak; duck and lobster and pata negra.
- There is the sucking lamb, named after the aforementioned child who still likes mommy's milk, and then the weaned lamb.