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insucking

insucking

English

Noun

insucking (plural insuckings)

  1. A sucking inward.
    • 1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter
      Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.
    • Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
      Her initial response to this was a retropulsion or insucking of the tongue, so severe that speech was impossible, and she was in continual danger of swallowing her tongue.