suck
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English souken, suken from Old English sūcan (“to suck”) from Proto-Germanic *sūganan (“to suck”) from Proto-Indo-European *seug-, *sug-, *suk-. Akin to Old English sūgan "to suck", Old High German sūgan "to suck" (German saugen), Old English socian "to cause to suck up, soak". More at soak.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (US), (UK) enPR: sŭk, IPA: /sʌk/, SAMPA: /sVk/
- (some Northern English accents) enPR: so͝ok, IPA: /sʊk/, SAMPA: /sUk/
- Rhymes: -ʊk
[edit] Verb
suck (third-person singular simple present sucks, present participle sucking, simple past and past participle sucked)
- (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). [from 9th c.]
- (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. [from 11th c.]
- (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. [from 11th c.]
- (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact. [from 17th c.]
- To perform fellatio. [from 20th c.]
- (intransitive, slang) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]
- 1970, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, Simon and Schuster, pg. 251:
- . . . and it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks
- 1970, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, Simon and Schuster, pg. 251:
[edit] Synonyms
- To draw
- To attract
- (3, 4 above) To blow
- See also Wikisaurus:give head
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Terms derived from suck (verb)
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[edit] Translations
to use the mouth to pull in (liquid etc)
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colloquial: term of general disparagement
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colloquial: with at, indicates a particular area of deficiency
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[edit] Noun
suck (plural sucks)
- (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who won't go along, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- 1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., v 9, n 3, p 82–6:
- “Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such a suck,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”
- 2008, Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, in Today's Parent, v 25, n 5, p 64:
- I used to think she was such a suck! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.
- 1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., v 9, n 3, p 82–6:
- (chiefly Canada) A sycophant, especially a child.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press, p 23:
- You are McGlade's suck.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press, p 23:
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sycophant — see sycophant
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[edit] Noun
suck c.
- sigh; a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration
