suckleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck +‎ -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.

発音

• IPA^(key): /sʌ.kəl/
  • 韻: -ʌkəl

名詞

suckle (複数形 suckles)

1. (obsolete) A teat.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique, London: Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, “Travels begun Anno 1626,” Book 1, p. 26,^[1]

     […] the body of this fish [the Mannatee] is commonly 3 yards long and one broad, slow in swimming, wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time she grazes […]

2. An act of suckling

   The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.

動詞

suckle (三人称単数 現在形 suckles, 現在分詞 suckling, 過去形および過去分詞形 suckled)

1. (transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     […] the breasts of Hecuba
     When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier
     Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood
     At Grecian sword, contemning.

   • 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 35810401, page 35:

     Let us indulge them; they are not weak, suckled by Wisdom, taught to walk by Virtue.

2. (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
   • 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, 1944, Chapter 4, p. 35,^[2]

     But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow.

3. (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).
   • 1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, 1983, p. 60^[3]

     Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.

   • 1997, Ridley Pearson, Beyond Recognition, New York: Hyperion, p. 129,^[4]

     She opened her eyes slightly, like a person drugged—dreamy and quiet. The baby suckled her.

派生語

• suckling