bloodsucker

See also: blood-sucker

English

From blood +‎ sucker. The “changeable lizard” sense is perhaps because of the reddish color of its neck.

bloodsucker (plural bloodsuckers)

An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
(by extension) Any parasite.
(informal, derogatory) Any mosquito, gnat, midge, or other small bug which consumes human blood.
(figurative, derogatory) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
Synonym: gadfly
A vampire.
- 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  Meyer, in turn, offered a chaste variation on the promiscuous bloodsuckers of Anne Rice. And back in Rice’s heyday of the 1980s and ’90s, mass market copies of her “Interview With the Vampire” occupied the same spinning racks as other critically slammed authors of the ’70s and ’80s: Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins.
The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).

animal that drinks the blood of others

Belarusian: крывапі́вец m (kryvapívjec), крывасмо́к m (kryvasmók)
Bulgarian: кръвопи́ец (bg) m (krǎvopíec), кръвопи́йка f (krǎvopíjka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 吸血動物 / 吸血动物 (xīxuè dòngwù) (animal), 吸血者 (zh) (xīxuèzhě) (human or animal)
Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁⲙⲥⲛⲟϥ (ouamsnof)
Czech: pijavice (cs) f, pijavka f
Danish: blodsuger (da) c
Dutch: bloedzuiger (nl) m, bloeddrinker m
Erzya: верень симиця (vereń simića)
Estonian: vereimeja
Finnish: verenimijä (fi)
French: suceur de sang (fr) m, suceuse de sang f
Galician: samesuga f, sanguesuga f
German: Blutsauger (de) m, Blutsaugerin f
Irish: súmaire (fola) m
Japanese: 吸血動物 (きゅうけつどうぶつ, kyūketsu dōbutusu) (animal)
Korean: 흡혈동물(吸血動物) (ko) (heuphyeoldongmul)
Kyrgyz: кан ичер (ky) m or f (kan icer), кан соргуч (ky) m (kan sorguc)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: цус сорогч (cus sorogč)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blodsuger (no) m
Polish: krwiopijca (pl) m
Portuguese: sugador/chupador de sangue m
Russian: кровопи́йца (ru) m or f (krovopíjca), кровосо́с (ru) m (krovosós)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крво̀пија impf

Latin: krvòpija (sh) m
Spanish: sanguijuela (es) f
Swedish: blodsugare (sv) c
Ukrainian: кровопи́вець m (krovopývecʹ), кровосмо́к m (krovosmók), кровосо́с m (krovosós)

parasite — see parasite

one who attempts to take as much from others as possible

Belarusian: крывапі́вец m (kryvapívjec)
Bulgarian: кръвопи́ец (bg) m (krǎvopíec), кръвопи́йка f (krǎvopíjka), къ́рлеж (bg) m (kǎ́rlež)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 吸血鬼 (zh) (xīxuèguǐ)
Czech: vyděrač (cs) m, vydřiduch (cs) m
Danish: blodsuger (da) c
Dutch: vampier (nl) m, bloeddrinker m
Estonian: vereimeja
Finnish: verenimijä (fi)
French: sangsue (fr) f (a leech)
German: Blutsauger (de) m, Blutsaugerin f
Kyrgyz: эзүүчү (ky) m or f (ezüücü)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blodsuger (no) m
Polish: krwiopijca (pl) m, krwiopijczyni f
Portuguese: chulo (pt) m, chupista m, parasita (pt) m or f, sanguessuga (pt) f
Russian: кровопи́йца (ru) m or f (krovopíjca), вымога́тель (ru) m (vymogátelʹ) (extortioner), эксплуата́тор (ru) m (ekspluatátor) (exploiter)
Spanish: chupasangre, chupóptero (es) (Spain), sanguijuela (es) f
Swahili: mnyonya-damu
Swedish: blodsugare (sv) c, utsugare c
Ukrainian: кровопи́вець m (krovopývecʹ), кровопи́вця m or f (krovopývcja)

vampire — see vampire