give suck

English

Etymology

From give + suck (verb) (bare infinitive, though now generally felt as a noun).

Verb

give suck (third-person singular simple present gives suck, present participle giving suck, simple past gave suck, past participle given suck)

1. (archaic) To suckle; to give milk from the breast (to).
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:

     Wo be in those dayes to them that are with chylde, and to them that geve sucke.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 35:

     "She brought forth the earth from her belly. She gave suck. The earth brought forth woman and the woman brought forth the first man out of her belly."

Translations

suckle — see suckle