insucking

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noun

A sucking inward.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nouninsucking (plural insuckings)

plural insuckings

  1. A sucking inward.

    Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.

    1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter
    1 more example

    Her initial response to this was a retropulsion or insucking of the tongue, so severe that speech was impossible, and she was in continual danger of swallowing her tongue.

    1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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