different between sacking vs suckling

English

Noun

sacking (countable and uncountable, plural sackings)

1. (uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).

   The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.

2. (countable) Firing or termination of an employee.

   He followed his sacking with a good drink.

Verb

sacking

1. present participle of sack

Translations

Anagrams

• cakings, casking

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sukling, sukeling, sokeling, equivalent to suck +? -ling. Cognate with Middle Dutch sogelinc (“suckling”), Dutch zuigeling (“suckling”), German Säugling (“suckling”).

Noun

suckling (plural sucklings)

1. An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.
2. A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother.

Related terms

• -ling
• suck
• sucker
• suckling calf
• suckling pig
• sucking reflex
• suckle
• suckler (suckler cow)

Translations

Etymology 2

From suckle +? -ing.

Verb

suckling

1. present participle of suckle

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• lung sick, sculking