suckle

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
2. (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
3. (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).

Noun

1. (obsolete) A teat.
2. An act of suckling

Concepts

allaiter

téter

allaier

donner la tétée

sèche

nourrir

donner le sein

boire

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Synonymes

nurse

suck

breastfeed

give suck

breast-feed

wet-nurse

give suck to

lactate

soak

breast

include

milk

🥛

instruct

make one understand

nourish

saturate

puff

raise

rear

suck in

suck up

suction

sustain

take in

take up

blow

breast-feeding

female breast

sop up

cause to suck

draw in

chest

dry

feed

foster

breasts

aspirate

mother

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breast feed

Traductions

allattare

säugen

amamantar

stillen

zogen

θηλάζω

mamar

lactar

alletar

de borst geven

dar de mamar

amamentar

dar el pecho

emzirmek

γαλουχώ

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsʌk.əl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sukelen

In summary

From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck + -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.