intersuck

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ suck.

Verb

intersuck (third-person singular simple present intersucks, present participle intersucking, simple past and past participle intersucked)

(rare) To suck mutually.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 26, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  And when by hard wringing them the blood appeared at their ends, they pricked them with some sharp point, and then mutually entersuck't each one the others.

Adjective

intersuck (not comparable)

Between sucks.
- 2011, Marsha Walker, Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician, p. 149:
  Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds.

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