Meanings
plural insuckings
- 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 Daughter1 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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