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单词 suck
释义

suck

English

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 sugō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.

Pronunciation

  • (US, UK) enPR: sŭk, IPA(key): /sʌk/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌk
  • (some Northern English accents) enPR: so͝ok, IPA(key): /sʊk/
  • Rhymes: -ʊk
  • Hyphenation: suck

Noun

suck (countable and uncountable, plural sucks)

  1. An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
    • 2001, D. Martin Doney, Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty, page 261
      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.”
  2. (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
    • 2010, Barbara Tieken, Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green (page 202)
      The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.
  3. An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
    • 2005, Nick Gibbs, Ultimate Woodworking Course, page 136:
      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.
  4. (uncount) The ability to suck; suction.
    • 1972, Design, number 277-282, page 68:
      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[.]
    • 2017, Oliver B. Zimmerman, Internal Combustion Engines and Tractors, page 153:
      [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.
  5. A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
    • 1879, Edward Deering Mansfield, Personal Memories, Social, Political, and Literary, page 302:
      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.
  6. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
    • 1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., v 9, n 3, p 82–6:
      “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.”
    • 2008, Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, in Today's Parent, v 25, n 5, p 64:
      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.
  7. A sycophant, especially a child.
    • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press, p 23:
      You are McGlade's suck.
  8. (slang, dated) A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
  9. (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
    • 2012, Alex Carreras, Cruising with Destiny, page 12
      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?
  10. (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
    • 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 34:
      You don't have to call me on for everything, ok? I'm aware of my suck.

Synonyms

  • (crybaby): sook
  • (crybaby): sooky baby

Derived terms

  • fair suck of the sauce bottle

Translations
sycophant — see sycophant

Verb

suck (third-person singular simple present sucks, present participle sucking, simple past and past participle sucked)

  1. (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). [from 9th c.]
  2. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. [from 11th c.]
  3. (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. [from 11th c.]
  4. (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something. [from 14th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
      That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood,
      With which she from her childhood had bene fed.
  5. (transitive, archaic) To inhale (air), to draw (breath).
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
      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, […]
  6. (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth. [from 14th c.]
  7. (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact. [from 17th c.]
  8. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio. [from 20th c.]
  9. (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]
    • 1969 November 2, Sid Moody; Jules Loh, Richard Meyer, “The USS Pueblo: 22: Panmunjom: General Pak Had One Last Trump”, in Charlotte Observer‎, page H-25:
      Schumacher recalls Bucher had also written 'Communism sucks' on the underside of his table
    • 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:
      it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks
    • 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 Mondays sucked.

Conjugation

Conjugation of suck
infinitive(to) suck
present tensepast tense
1st-person singular suck sucked
2nd-person singular
3rd-person singular sucks
plural suck
subjunctive suck sucked
imperative suck —
participles sucking sucked

Synonyms

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  • To draw
  • To attract
  • (7, 8 above) To blow
  • See also Thesaurus:give head

Antonyms

  • (to bring something into the mouth by inhaling): to blow
  • (to be poor at): to rock, to rule

Derived terms

Terms derived from suck (verb)
  • give suck
  • insuck
  • suck a big one
  • suckable
  • suck a lemon
  • suck and blow
  • suck arse
  • suck ass
  • suck balls
  • suck cock
  • suck donkey balls
  • suck donkey cock
  • suck donkey dick
  • sucker
  • suck face
  • suck hind tit
  • suck into
  • suck it
  • suck it up
  • suckle
  • suck lemons
  • suckling
  • suck my balls
  • suck my cock
  • suck my dick
  • suck off
  • suck on that
  • suck out
  • suck rocks
  • sucks to suck
  • suck the air out of
  • suck tits
  • suck up
  • sucky
  • sucky-sucky
  • sugescent

Translations

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Anagrams

  • cusk

Swedish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

suck c

  1. sigh; a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration

Declension

Declension of suck 
SingularPlural
IndefiniteDefiniteIndefiniteDefinite
Nominativesucksuckensuckarsuckarna
Genitivesuckssuckenssuckarssuckarnas

Interjection

suck

  1. sigh
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