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sue¹

  • /sjuː/
  • /sɪu̯/ Wales
  • /suː/
  • /ʃuː/

Sounds like Sioux, sou, Su, Sue (yod-dropping), shoe, shoo (yod-coalescence) · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

verb sues · suing · sued

  1. transitive To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action. sue someone for selling a faulty product
  2. ambitransitive To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people.
  3. transitive To clean (the beak, etc.).
  4. transitive To leave high and dry on shore. to sue a ship
  5. obsolete, transitive To court.
  6. obsolete, transitive To follow. And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’

Sue²

  • /suː/

Sounds like sou, Su, sue (yod-dropping) · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

Clipping.

proper noun Sues · Su

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name. For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys.

noun Sues · Su

  1. informal Synonym of Mary Sue (“type of character in fiction”).

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