intersuck
intersuck verb: of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.
Verb
intersuck (third-person singular simple present intersucks, present participle intersucking, simple past and past participle intersucked)
- Of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.
- 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 26, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Adjective
intersuck (not comparable)
- Between sucks.
- Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds.2011, Marsha Walker, Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician, page 149
Forms of intersuck
| third-person singular present | intersucks |
|---|---|
| present participle | intersucking |
| past participle | intersucked |
| past | intersucked |
Origin of intersuck
From inter- + suck.
Questions about intersuck
- What does intersuck mean?
- Intersuck means of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.
- What part of speech is intersuck?
- Intersuck can be a verb or an adjective.
- What is the past tense of intersuck?
- The past tense of intersuck is intersucked.
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