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suckless

suckless adjective: that does not suck or suckle.

Adjective

suckless (not comparable)

  1. That does not suck or suckle.
    • ‘No, I’ll not touch it: but it looks melancholy, does it not, Ellen?’ ‘Yes,’ I observed, ‘about as starved and suckless as you: your cheeks are bloodless […]1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXII, in Wuthering Heights
    • Tube feeding is not as quick an emergency measure as the dextrose injection nor as long lasting in its energy boost, but is most useful for getting milk into the stomach of a suckless lamb.1967, Shepherd, volume 12, page 22

Origin of suckless

From suck + -less.

Questions about suckless

What does suckless mean?
Suckless means that does not suck or suckle.
What part of speech is suckless?
Suckless is an adjective.

Words near suckless in the dictionary

  1. suckle
  2. suckled
  3. suckler
  4. sucklers
  5. suckles
  6. suckless
  7. sucklest
  8. suckleth
  9. Suckley
  10. suckling
  11. suckling clover

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