intersuck

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

Adjective

  1. Between 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.

Verb

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

Forms

intersucks intersucking intersucked