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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsouken,suken, fromOld Englishsūcan(“to suck”), fromProto-West Germanic*sūkan, fromProto-Germanic*sūkaną(“to suck, suckle”), fromProto-Indo-European*sewg-,*sewk-(“to suck”). Cognate withScotssouke(“to suck”), obsoleteDutchzuiken(“to suck”),Limburgishzuken,zoeken(“to suck”). Akin also toOld Englishsūgan(“to suck”),West Frisiansûge,sûge(“to suck”),Dutchzuigen(“to suck”),Germansaugen(“to suck”),Swedishsuga(“to suck”),Icelandicsjúga(“to suck”),Latinsūgō(“suck”),Welshsugno(“suck”). Related tosoak.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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suck (countable anduncountable,pluralsucks)

  1. An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
    • 2001, D. Martin Doney,Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty, page261:
      Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quicksuck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”
  2. (uncountable)Milk drawn from thebreast.
    • 2010, Barbara Tieken,Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green, page202:
      The infant tooksuck in an instant, pulling strongly.
  3. Anindrawing ofgas orliquid caused bysuction.
    • 2005, Nick Gibbs,Ultimate Woodworking Course, page136:
      On a proper workbench this can often be achieved between the end vice and a dog, though more sophisticated products use either thesuck of a vacuum cleaner or just friction.
  4. (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
    • 1972,Design, numbers277-282, page68:
      Vacuum for the park Mosuc is a street and park vacuum cleaner which its designers, Hollowell Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, like to claim has moresuck than most[.]
    • 2017, Oliver B. Zimmerman,Internal Combustion Engines and Tractors, page153:
      [D]rop the head for lesssuck or raise it for more. A plow should not have too muchsuck or it will run on its nose in hard land and put unnecessary weight.
  5. A part of ariver towards which strongcurrentsconverge makingnavigation difficult.
    • 1879, Edward Deering Mansfield,Personal Memories, Social, Political, and Literary, page302:
      Marvelous stories were told of "thesuck" in early times. It was said that the water was so compressed that it would bear an ax.
  6. (Canada) Aweak,self-pitying person; a person who refuses togo along with others, especially out ofspite; acrybaby orsore loser.
    • 1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, inMs., volume 9, number 3, pages82–6:
      “Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such asuck,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”
    • 2008, Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, inToday's Parent, volume25, number 5, page64:
      I used to think she was such asuck! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.
  7. Asycophant, especially achild.
  8. (slang, dated) A shortdrink, especially adram ofspirits.
  9. (vulgar) An act offellatio.
    • 2012, Alex Carreras,Cruising with Destiny, page12:
      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 quicksuck. He needed to shoot his load, but was he really that desperate?
  10. (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
    • 2019, Justin Blackburn,The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page34:
      You don't have to call me on for everything, ok? I'm aware of mysuck.

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Translations

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instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling
milk drawn from the breast
weak, self-pitying person
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  • Finnish:nynny (fi)
sycophant—seesycophant
short drink
vulgar: act of fellatio
badness or mediocrity

Verb

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suck (third-person singular simple presentsucks,present participlesucking,simple past and past participlesucked)

  1. (transitive) To use themouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especiallymilk from the breast).[from 9th c.]
    The babysucked (milk) on her bottle.
  2. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from abreast orteat.[from 11th c.]
  3. (transitive) To put themouth orlips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.[from 11th c.]
  4. (transitive) Toextract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.[from 14th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser,The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
      That she maysucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.
  5. (transitive, archaic) Toinhale (air), todraw (breath).
    • c.1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act II, scene vi:
      And ſince we all haueſuckt 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,[…]
  6. (transitive) To work thelips andtongue on (an object) to extractmoisture ornourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.[from 14th c.]
  7. (transitive) Topull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.[from 17th c.]
    • 1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, inGay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page15:
      Cigarette smoke wassucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.
  8. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To performfellatio.[from 20th c.]
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:perform oral sex
    • 1970-1975,Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors),We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me tosuck him.
    • 1992,Neal Stephenson,Snow Crash, page356:
      Right now, she's content to lie underneath him andsuck the warmth out of his body.
  9. (chiefly Canada,US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To beinferior orobjectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used withat to indicate a particular area of deficiency.[from 20th c.]
    • 1969 November 2, Sid Moody with Jules Loh and Richard Meyer, “The USS Pueblo: 22: Panmunjom: General Pak Had One Last Trump”, inCharlotte Observer‎[1], pageH-25:
      Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written “Communismsucks” on the underside of his table
    • 1970 January 8,Hunter S. Thompson, “[letter to Steve Geller]”, inFear and Loathing in America‎[2], New York: Simon & Schuster, published2000,→ISBN, page251:
      it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, itsucks
    • 1988, "Vixen" (video game review) inYour Sinclair (issue 32, page 70)
      […] the animation on the main character is beautiful, and the fox, although a little on the weeny side, moves superbly. The rest of the graphicssuck — they might have looked worthy in 1984, but now they're quite the opposite.
    • 1990 December 31, Jim Davis,Garfield Takes Up Space (Garfield) (comic):
      Garfield: Well, another year is almost under the belt / And I've had 313 pretty good days / The Mondayssucked.

Usage notes

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  • The colloquial sense denoting something to be objectionable or of poor quality is now very common among younger people, hence it has mostly lost its vulgar connotations. However, some older speakers may still find it offensive.

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Translations

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(transitive) to use the mouth to pull in (liquid, etc)
(intransitive) to perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat
(transitive) to put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother) to draw in milk
to extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something
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
slang, vulgar: to perform fellatio
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  • Bulgarian:духам (bg)(duham)
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  • Dutch:pijpen (nl)
  • Finnish:imeä (fi)
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  • Hebrew:מצץ (he)(matsáts)
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  • Hungarian:szop (hu),leszop (hu)
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  • Japanese:しゃぶる (ja)(shaburu)
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  • Polish:obciągać (pl),obciągnąć (pl) pf
  • Portuguese:chupar (pt)
  • Romanian:(o) suge (ro),face muie,da muie
  • Russian:сосать (ru)(sosatʹ)
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  • Spanish:mamar (es)
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  • Tagalog:chupa (tl)(slang)
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  • Vietnamese:bú (vi) (slang),mút (vi) (slang)
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colloquial: term of general disparagement
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Swedish

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Etymology

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FromOld Swedishsukker, from the root of the verbsucka(“to let out a sigh”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sɵk/
  • Hyphenation:suck

Noun

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suck c

  1. sigh; a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration
  2. (colloquial, usually in negated expressions)chance
    Han har inte ensuck
    He doesn't stand achance

Declension

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Declension ofsuck
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitesucksucks
definitesuckensuckens
pluralindefinitesuckarsuckars
definitesuckarnasuckarnas

Interjection

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suck

  1. sigh
    suck och stön
    sigh and moan (expresses frustration)

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