- a baby or young animal that is still drinking milk from its motherTopics Life stagesc2Word OriginMiddle English: from the verb suck + -ling.
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See suckling in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryout of the mouths of babes (and sucklings)
- (saying) used when a small child has just said something that seems very wise or clever
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