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