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socking

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?s?k??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?k??/
  • Hyphenation: sock?ing

Verb

socking

  1. present participle of sock

Adverb

socking (not comparable)

  1. (Britain) very, extremely

Usage notes

This adverb is chiefly used with great; usage with other adjectives (big, huge, enormous, fat) is much more limited, and is in any case restricted to the semantic field of “big”.

Further reading

  • socking at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • socking in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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sucking

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s?k??/
  • Hyphenation: suck?ing

Verb

sucking

  1. present participle of suck

Noun

sucking (countable and uncountable, plural suckings)

  1. An act of sucking.
  2. A sound or motion that sucks.

Translations

Adjective

sucking (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Still nourished by the mother's milk, as an infant; suckling.
  2. (archaic, by extension, figuratively) Young and inexperienced.

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