intersuck
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[edit]intersuck (third-person singular simple present intersucks, present participle intersucking, simple past and past participle intersucked)
- (intransitive) Of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.
- (rare) To suck mutually.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 26, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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.
Adjective
[edit]intersuck (not comparable)
- Between sucks.
- 2011, Marsha Walker, Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician, page 149:
- Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds.