suck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
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.
Inflected forms:
form: sucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.”
gloss: Milk drawn from the breast.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.
gloss: An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The ability to suck; suction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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[.]
[D]rop the head for less suck or raise it for more. A plow should not have too much suck or it will run on its nose in hard land and put unnecessary weight.
gloss: A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
countable
uncountable
examples: “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.”
I used to think she was such a suck! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.
gloss: A sycophant, especially a child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You are McGlade's suck.
gloss: A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: An act of fellatio.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
vulgar
examples: 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?
gloss: Badness or mediocrity.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: You don't have to call me on for everything, ok? I'm aware of my suck.
gloss: To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.
gloss: To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.
gloss: To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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, […]
gloss: To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.
gloss: To perform fellatio.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: 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.
Right now, she's content to lie underneath him and suck the warmth out of his body.
gloss: To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
intransitive
sometimes
stative
vulgar
examples: Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written “Communism sucks” on the underside of his table
it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks
[…] the animation on the main character is beautiful, and the fox, although a little on the weeny side, moves superbly. The rest of the graphics suck — they might have looked worthy in 1984, but now they're quite the opposite.
Garfield: Well, another year is almost under the belt / And I've had 313 pretty good days / The Mondays sucked.
Related words: sugescent
Derived words: chain suck
cloud suck
cloudsuck
embrace the suck
fair suck of the pineapple
fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce stick
fair suck of the sav
goal suck
suck-out
suck-suck
suck-up
timesuck
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
Microsuck
outsuck
oversuck
resuck
self-suck
shit-sucking
soul-sucking
succ
suck a bag of dicks
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
suckboy
suck-boy
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
suckful
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
Suckville
suckworthy
sucky
suck your mum
sucky-sucky
suctomer
sux0r
teach grandma how to suck eggs
teach Grandma to suck eggs
teach grandma to suck eggs
undersuck
unsucked
upsuck
wheelsuck
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