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Suckle

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To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. Iago says women are of no use but to nurse children and keep the accounts of the household. (Shakespeare: Othello, ii. 1.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Subpœna
Subsidy
Substitution of Service (The)
Subtle Doctor
Subvolvans or Subvolvani
Succession Powder
Succinct
Succoth
Suck the Monkey
Sucking Young Patricians
Suckle
Sucre
Suds (Mrs.)
Suffolk
Suffrage
Sugar-candy
Sugar-lip
Sugar and Honey
Sugared Words
Sui Generis (Latin)
Sui Juris