sucker

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsʌk.ə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈsʌk.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -ʌkə(r)

Etymology 1

From the verb suck.

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

1. A person or thing that sucks.
2. An organ or body part that does the sucking.
3. Animals such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs
4. A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollypop.
5. (horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
6. (UK, colloquial) A suction cup

Synonyms

• (piece of candy): lollipop

Translations

something that sucks

• Finnish:
• German: Sauger (de) m
• Italian: aspiratore (it) m, succhiatore (it)

• Portuguese: sugador (pt) m, chupador (pt) m
• Swedish: sugare (sv) c

organ

• Finnish: lonkero (fi)
• German: Sauger (de) m
• Greek: μυζητήρας (el) (myzitíras) m, κοτύλη (el) (kotýli) f
• Italian: pompa (it) f, ventosa (it) f

• Portuguese: ventosa (pt) f
• Russian: присоска (ru) (prisóska) f

animal

• Italian: polpo (it) m, sanguisuga (it) f, remora (it) f

• Russian: сосун (ru) (sosún) m

lollipop — see lollipop

Verb

sucker (third-person singular simple present suckers, present participle suckering, simple past and past participle suckered)

1. (transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

   to sucker maize

Etymology 2

Possibly from the Pig in a poke scam, where victims were tricked into believing they were buying a young (that is a suckling) pig. Also possibly from suckener.

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

1. One who is easily fooled, or gulled.

Synonyms

• (one who is easily fooled): chump, fall-guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch
• See also Wikisaurus:dupe

Translations

one who is easily fooled

• Arabic: مغفل (ar) (muġaffal) m
• Finnish: hölmö (fi)
• French: pigeon (fr) m
• Greek: κορόιδο (el) (koróido) n
• Hebrew: פראייר (he) (frayer) m
• Hungarian: balek (hu)
• Italian: allocco (it)

• Korean: 호구 (ko)
• Polish: frajer (pl) m
• Portuguese: otário (pt) m
• Russian: лох (ru) (lox) m, (of youngsters) молокосос (ru) (molokosós) m, фраер (ru) (frájer) m, простак (ru) (prosták) m, простофиля (ru) (prostofílja) m and f
• Serbo-Croatian: pušioničar (sh) m, budala (sh) m, naivac (sh) m

Verb

sucker (third-person singular simple present suckers, present participle suckering, simple past and past participle suckered)

1. To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

   The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.

Translations

to fool

• Finnish: huijata (fi)
• French: pigeonner (fr)
• Greek: κοροϊδεύω (el) (koroïdévo)

• Russian: дурить (ru) (durítʹ) impf., обдурить (ru) (obdurítʹ) pf., дурачить (ru) (duráčitʹ) impf., одурачить (ru) (oduráčitʹ) pf.
• Swedish: narra (sv), lura (sv)

Etymology 3

Possibly from German Sache (thing).

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

1. (slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".

Synonyms

• thing, object

See also

• Sucker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Uckers