insucking

noun

insucking

noun

Etymology From in + sucking.

1

A sucking inward.

  • Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter:
  • 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.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

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