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blood-sucker|ˈblʌdˌsʌkə(r)|
[f. blood n. + sucker: cf. prec.]
1. spec.
a. An animal which sucks blood; esp. the leech.
1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. IV. 243 Virgill þrewe a goldene blood soukere in to þe botme of a pitte. 1533Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 61 Evacuation by wormes founde in waters called bloudde suckers, or leaches. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 66 If one haue drunke a Horse⁓leech, or Bloudsucker. 1698A. van Leeuwenhoek in Phil. Trans. XX. 174 A small Gnat, of that sort that..are no Blood-Suckers.
b. spec. A lizard belonging to the species Lacerta cristata, the individuals of which change their colour, especially about the neck, from grey to dark red.
1819J. Morton Poet. Rem. J. Leyden p. xc, A large lizard, termed a blood-sucker. 1840E. Napier Scenes & Sp. For. Lands I. Pref. 32 The blood-sucker, a large kind of lizard, though perfectly harmless, is so called from his ferocious appearance and bloodstained countenance. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 736/2 Calotes is another genus of agamoids peculiar to the East Indies; it comprises numerous species well known in India by the name of ‘blood-suckers’.
c. A lizard of the genus Amphibolurus (Grammatophora), esp. of the species A. muricata.
1852L. A. Meredith My Home in Tasmania II. 37 Another description of lizard is here vulgarly called the ‘blood-sucker’. 1886F. McCoy Zool. Victoria II. xii. 47 Grammatophora muricata... The Blood-sucker.
†2. One who draws or sheds the blood of another; a blood-thirsty or blood-guilty person. Obs.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 92 He hath reserued this time to hymself, when he will reward the bloud suckers. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 315 The seuenth bloud-sucker after beastlie Nero, was Decius. a1659Cleveland On O.P. Sick in Craik II. 31 Fall Thou subtle bloodsucker, thou cannibal!
3. fig. One who extorts or preys upon another's money or substance; an extortioner; a sponger.
1668R. Lestrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 13, I..cast my Eye upon a certain Tax-gatherer..ask'd the Devil, whether they had not of that sort of Blood-suckers among the rest, in their Dominions. 1724Swift Wks. (1841) II. 3 While there is a silver sixpence left, these blood-suckers will never be quiet. 1857S. Osborn Quedah xx. 276 A floating population..of pirates and those bloodsuckers who lived upon them. |