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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity..
"He'd put up the feathers of a sucking-dove and set up a riot in a Quakers' meeting."
Use sucking-dove when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sucking-dove means A young pigeon or dove that still has downy feathers; symbolically representing gentleness and placidity..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"He'd put up the feathers of a sucking-dove and set up a riot in a Quakers' meeting."
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