suckingly

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adverb

With a sucking sound or motion.

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

adverbsuckingly (comparative more suckingly, superlative most suckingly)

comparative more suckingly · superlative most suckingly

  1. With a sucking sound or motion.

    […] but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up — my God! poor Tashtego — like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling went clean out of sight!

    1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin

From sucking + -ly.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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