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sucky, a.|ˈsʌkɪ|
[f. suck v. + -y1.]
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1. Sc. dial. and slang (chiefly Schoolchildren's). Of a blow: painful; also, of a wound: sore. Now Obs. or rare.
Beale (1984) suggests that the sense derives from the action of sucking in one's cheeks in pain.
1934B. Marshall Prayer for Living iv. 52 As Sloan had said when he came out [from being caned], Tired Tim was laying them on pretty sucky. 1935― Uncertain Glory i. ii. 49 ‘Does it hurt very much?’ ‘It was a bit sucky at the time.’ 1946― George Brown's Schooldays 6 They make you take down your bags and show your marks and if they don't look sucky enough they make you bend over again.
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2. colloq. a. Of an object: that is or may be sucked, suckable; esp. of a sweet (cf. sucker n. 13).
1986Philadelphia Inquirer 18 Oct. c2/1 One 3-year-old became greatly upset when his mother decided the time had come to wash his ‘sucky blanket’. 1987Times 13 Nov. 24/7 In front of him, Mrs Edwina Currie..pouted her lips while chewing on a sucky sweet.
b. fig. Sickly sweet; sentimental; mawkish. Also, unctuous or ingratiating. Cf. suck v. 26 e.
1971Scotsman 20 May 13/4 [Ogden Nash's] range was narrow and he was not beyond the perpetration of a good deal of sucky lyrical whimsey when the usual vitriol ran short. 1989Maclean's Mag. 29 May 55/3, I know this sounds sucky, but you feel very proud of what's happening to the Canadian film industry when you come to an event like this. 1991Observer 9 June 59/8 The nice people are sucky, self-made success stories who embody an improbable form of humble acquisitiveness.
III. That sucks.
3. Of a baby: given to suckling or sucking, esp. excessively. colloq.
1977P. Leach Baby & Child ii. 50 Whether yours is a ‘sucky baby’ or not, you can be quite sure that she has been born with a set of sucking reflexes. 1988Practical Parenting Apr. 64/2 Many infants do seem to need to suck a lot of the time..and if you're breast-feeding you may not want (or be able) to spend all day plugged in to a ‘sucky’ baby. 1991Independent 18 June 13/4 Daniel is a very sucky baby. He wanted the breast and he always persevered.
4. Disagreeable or contemptible; obnoxious or unpleasant. Cf. suck v. 15 f. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1984A. F. Loewenstein This Place 8 She always..showed up for her sucky state job on time. 1987San Jose (California) Mercury News 14 Oct. 9 Friday's a sucky day to have Chinese school. 1991Chicago Tribune 20 Feb. vii. 18/4 What is the poor fellow going to have left in his verbal quiver later in life when he encounters something truly ‘sucky’—such as an Internal Revenue Service audit or being drafted into the army. |