insucking

English

Etymology

in +‎ sucking

Noun

insucking (plural insuckings)

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

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