suck
verbEtymology
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.
9 senses
- 1To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid…
- 2To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- 3To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to…
- 4To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- 5To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
- 6To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract…
- 7To pull (something) in a given direction, especially…
- 8To perform fellatio.
- 9To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of…
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.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
Archaic 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, […]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:
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.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:
- 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.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 356:
Canada, US, Colloquial, Sometimes, Stative, Vulgar 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 table1969 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:
- it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks1970 January 8, Hunter S. Thompson, “[letter to Steve Geller]”, in Fear and Loathing in America, New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 251:
2 more examples
- […] 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.1988, "Vixen" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 32, page 70)
- Garfield: Well, another year is almost under the belt / And I've had 313 pretty good days / The Mondays sucked.1990 December 31, Jim Davis, Garfield Takes Up Space (Garfield) (comic):
- Derived terms
114 terms
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- sugescent