Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#INSUCKCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#INSUCK insouken, equivalent to in- +‎ suckCategory:English terms prefixed with in-#SUCK. Cognate with Saterland Frisian iensuge (“to suck in, absorb”), West Frisian ynsûge (“to suck in”), Dutch inzuigen (“to suck in”), German Low German insugen (“to suck in, soak up”), German einsaugen (“suck in, absorb, soak up”), Swedish insuga (“to inhale, suck in, pick up”), Icelandic innsjúga (“to suck in”).

Verb

insuck (third-person singular simple present insucks, present participle insucking, simple past and past participle insucked)Category:English lemmas#INSUCKCategory:English verbs#INSUCKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INSUCKCategory:Pages with entries#INSUCKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#INSUCK

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#INSUCK) To suck in; inhale; absorb; soak up.
   • 1905, William Baucke, Where the white man treads:

     The first course was soup, and as the younger used his spoon, his lips reached forth to meet it, at the same time he insucked his breath, which made a particular noise.

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   • 1999, The Atlantic monthly, volume 284:

     [...] a wavering or trembling of the haypiles as if the hay itself took breath: insucks & outflows, faint wave motions rippling across low flat haystack is the giveaway [...]

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   • 2001, Ray Bradbury, A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities:

     The terrible wound of mouth peeled and slithered, insucked and garbled a single word: [...]

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Noun

insuck (plural insucks)Category:English lemmas#INSUCKCategory:English nouns#INSUCKCategory:English countable nouns#INSUCKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INSUCKCategory:Pages with entries#INSUCKCategory:Pages with 1 entry#INSUCK

1. The act or process of sucking in; absorption.
   • 2004, Aidan Higgins, A bestiary:

     The refill, the tamping down with finger, the match lit, the quick insucks, the very flushed face very serious now, sound of sucking in air, bubbling of pipe, waving of match to extinguish, puffing out clouds of smoke, rolling over on [...]

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   • 2006, Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer, Beverly Whipple, The science of orgasm:

     The timing of the insuck of semen in relation to sperm capacitation (the process that renders sperm capable of fertilizing an egg) has been discussed critically by Levin (2002).

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Anagrams

• suck in, suckin', unsick