different between sucking vs rooting

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English rotynge (“rooting”); equivalent to root +? -ing.

Noun

rooting (countable and uncountable, plural rootings)

1. A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:

     as sone as the sun was uppe it caught heet: and because it had nott rotynge it wyddred awaye.

2. The process of forming roots.
3. A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
4. A hole formed by a pig when it roots in the ground.
   • 1968, Gary Douglas E. Joll, Big game hunting in New Zealand (page 209)

     These rootings may be as deep as two and a half feet, depending on how large a pig has been working.

Translations

Verb

rooting

1. present participle of root

See also

• rooting tooting

Anagrams

• Rogotin