bloodsuckv.

Brit.

/ˈblʌdsʌk/, U.S.

/ˈblədˌsək/

Forms: see blood n. and suck v.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., suck v.

Etymology: < blood n. + suck v., after to suck (the) blood (of) (see suck v.), bloodsucker n.

transitive. To suck blood from (a person or animal); esp. (figurative): to extort money from (a person), to rob (someone) by extortion; to extort (money, etc.); to pillage, plunder (a country, territory, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > practise extortion on [verb (transitive)]

ransom?a1425

to poll and pill1528

exact1534

bloodsuck?1541

extort1561

rack1576

flay1584

shave1606

wire-draw1616

punisha1626

sponge1631

squeeze1639

screwa1643

to screw up1655

bleed1680

torture1687

to screw down1725

to shake down1872

to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak1918

to bleed white1935

rent1956

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood of [verb (transitive)] > apply leeches to > suck blood from

bloodsuck?1541

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Oiij Howe ought he to be ruled that hath ben blode sucked.

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G4 Thus bloudsucketh he the poore for his owne priuate profit.

1651 J. Harington Hist. Polindor & Flostella ii. 71 Storgvis twas..who..had blood-suck'd as twere Some of their Husbands Fortunes.

1798 R. B. Sheridan Lett. (1966) II. 254 Kemble..shall blood-suck no more.

1809 J. Cheetham Life Thomas Paine 114 Hunted, pillaged, and blood-sucked, a desert it might be, but a republick..it could not be.

1877 Gen. C. G. Gordon Let. 14 Nov. in Lett. to his Sister (1888) 164 I declare we have bloodsucked Egypt; our people are most rapacious.

1908 Jrnl. Board Agric. Brit. Guiana July 36 It is impossible to expect animals to develop as they should when they are being constantly irritated and blood-sucked by these pests.

1962 J. Clavell King Rat xiii. 143 For three days he had wandered the jungle, eaten by bugs and flies and ripped by thorns and bloodsucked by leeches.

2002 Esquire July 22/1 There are hundreds of video games that let you slash, stab, bloodsuck, bomb and machine-gun the bad guys.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bloodsuck
释义	bloodsuckv. Brit. /ˈblʌdsʌk/, U.S. /ˈblədˌsək/ Forms: see blood n. and suck v. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., suck v. Etymology: < blood n. + suck v., after to suck (the) blood (of) (see suck v.), bloodsucker n. transitive. To suck blood from (a person or animal); esp. (figurative): to extort money from (a person), to rob (someone) by extortion; to extort (money, etc.); to pillage, plunder (a country, territory, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > practise extortion on [verb (transitive)] ransom?a1425 to poll and pill1528 exact1534 bloodsuck?1541 extort1561 rack1576 flay1584 shave1606 wire-draw1616 punisha1626 sponge1631 squeeze1639 screwa1643 to screw up1655 bleed1680 torture1687 to screw down1725 to shake down1872 to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak1918 to bleed white1935 rent1956 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood of [verb (transitive)] > apply leeches to > suck blood from bloodsuck?1541 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Oiij Howe ought he to be ruled that hath ben blode sucked. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G4 Thus bloudsucketh he the poore for his owne priuate profit. 1651 J. Harington Hist. Polindor & Flostella ii. 71 Storgvis twas..who..had blood-suck'd as twere Some of their Husbands Fortunes. 1798 R. B. Sheridan Lett. (1966) II. 254 Kemble..shall blood-suck no more. 1809 J. Cheetham Life Thomas Paine 114 Hunted, pillaged, and blood-sucked, a desert it might be, but a republick..it could not be. 1877 Gen. C. G. Gordon Let. 14 Nov. in Lett. to his Sister (1888) 164 I declare we have bloodsucked Egypt; our people are most rapacious. 1908 Jrnl. Board Agric. Brit. Guiana July 36 It is impossible to expect animals to develop as they should when they are being constantly irritated and blood-sucked by these pests. 1962 J. Clavell King Rat xiii. 143 For three days he had wandered the jungle, eaten by bugs and flies and ripped by thorns and bloodsucked by leeches. 2002 Esquire July 22/1 There are hundreds of video games that let you slash, stab, bloodsuck, bomb and machine-gun the bad guys. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.?1541
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