suck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭk
ipa: /sʌk/
enpr: so͝ok
ipa: /sʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: sucks
form: sucking
form: sucked
form: sucked
Etymology: 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”), Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.
Senses: examples: The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
glosses: To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
glosses: To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
glosses: To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
examples: text: That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
glosses: To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
examples: text: 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, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
glosses: To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
glosses: To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
examples: text: Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.
ref: 1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 15:
glosses: To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
examples: text: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me to suck him.
text: Right now, she's content to lie underneath him and suck the warmth out of his body.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 356:
synonyms: word: give brain
word: give dome
word: give hat
word: give head
word: give neck
word: give noddy
word: go down on
glosses: To perform fellatio.
examples: text: Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written 'Communism sucks' on the underside of his table
ref: 1969 November 2, Sid Moody with Jules Loh and Richard Meyer, “The USS Pueblo: 22: Panmunjom: General Pak Had One Last Trump”, in Charlotte Observer, page H-25:
text: it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks
ref: 1970 January 8, Hunter S. Thompson, “[letter to Steve Geller]”, in Fear and Loathing in America, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 251:
text: Garfield: Well, another year is almost under the belt / And I've had 313 pretty good days / The Mondays sucked.
ref: 1990 December 31, Jim Davis, Garfield Takes Up Space (Garfield) (comic):
glosses: To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
Derived terms: allosuck
blood-sucking
bum-sucking
cocksuck
don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs
give suck
goal-suck
honeysuck
honeysuckle
insuck
intersuck
mean people suck
outsuck
oversuck
self-suck
shit-sucking
soul-sucking
succ
Suckabee
suck a big one
suckability
suckable
suckage
suck a lemon
suck all the air out of
suck all the oxygen out of
suck and blow
suck arse
suck ass
suck-ass
suck balls
suck-boy
suckboy
suck butt
suck cheese
suck cock
suck dick
suck diesel
suck donkey balls
suck donkey cock
suck donkey dick
suck down
suck dry
suckee
sucker
suckery
suck face
suckfest
suckfish
suck hind tit
suckhole
suck in
sucking bottle
sucking-dove
sucking-fish
sucking louse
sucking urge
suck into
suck it
suck it and see
suckitude
suck it up
suckle
suck lemons
suckless
suckling
suckly
suck my balls
suck my cock
suck my dick
suck my penis
suck my Richard
suck off
suck one's teeth
suck on that
suck out
suck out of one's thumb
suck-pint
Suckramento
suck rocks
suck someone's cock
suck someone's dick
suckstone
sucks to suck
sucktacular
sucktastic
suck the air out of
suck the kumara
suck the monkey
suck the mop
suck the oxygen out of
suck tits
suck under
suck up
suck up all the air in
suck up all the oxygen in
suckworthy
sucky
sucky-sucky
sux0r
teach grandma how to suck eggs
teach Grandma to suck eggs
teach grandma to suck eggs
undersuck
upsuck
wheelsuck
Related terms: sugescent