self-sucker

See also: selfsucker

English

Noun

self-sucker (plural self-suckers)

1. (dated) A female farm animal which drinks its own milk.
   • 1886, The American Agriculturist, volume 45, page 54:

     It is worth while, therefore, to treat the self-suckers while they are giving milk.

   • 1901, The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope, volume 18, page 31:

     It is generally the best cows that are self-suckers, the habit being due to the extreme pressure of milk causing pain.

   • 1913, The Breeder's Gazette, Farm Buildings, page 310:

     Cows addicted to the habit of sucking themselves should be taken in hand as soon as they are known to be self-suckers.