intersuck

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verb

Of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.

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Meanings

verbintersuck (third-person singular simple present intersucks, present participle intersucking, simple past and past participle intersucked)

present singular third person intersucks · participle present intersucking · participle past intersucked · past intersucked

  1. intransitiveOf cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats.
  2. rareTo suck mutually.

    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.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 26, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
adjectiveintersuck (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBetween sucks.

    Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds.

    2011, Marsha Walker, Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician, page 149

Origin

From inter- + suck.

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APA

intersuck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intersuck

MLA

“intersuck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intersuck. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intersuck,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intersuck.

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