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suck
- /sʌk/ Southern England, US
- /sʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌk
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Proto-Germanic *sūkaną
Proto-West Germanic *sūkan
Old English sūcan
Middle English souken
English suck
From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål suge (“to suck”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.
noun sucks
- An instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction. Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quick suck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”
- Milk drawn from the breast. The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction. On a proper workbench this can often be achieved between the end vice and a dog, though more sophisticated products use either the suck of a vacuum cleaner or just friction.
- The ability to suck; suction. Vacuum for the park Mosuc is a street and park vacuum cleaner which its designers, Hollowell Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, like to claim has more suck than most[.]
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult. Marvelous stories were told of "the suck" in early times. It was said that the water was so compressed that it would bear an ax.
- A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser. “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.”
- A sycophant, especially a child. You are McGlade's suck.
- A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
- An act of fellatio. Nate exhaled a long, slow breath. What the hell was he thinking? He couldn't cruise the steam room looking for married men looking for a quick suck. He needed to shoot his load, but was he really that desperate?
- Badness or mediocrity. You don't have to call me on for everything, ok? I'm aware of my suck.
verb sucks · sucking · sucked
- To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
- To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.
- To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something. That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.
- To inhale (air), to draw (breath). And ſince we all haue ſuckt on[e] wholſome aire, / And with the ſame proportion of Elements, / Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, / Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]
- To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact. Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.
- To perform fellatio. the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me to suck him.
- To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written “Communism sucks” on the underside of his table
