Dictionary entry

Sucking

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Suck″ing, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.

I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray.

Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. — Sucking fish(Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird.Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction. — Sucking stomach(Zoöl.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.