bloodsuckingn.

Brit.

/ˈblʌdsʌkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈblədˌsəkɪŋ/

Forms: see blood n. and sucking n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., sucking n.¹

Etymology: < blood n. + sucking n.¹, after to suck (the) blood (of) (see suck v.). Compare earlier bloodsucker n. and slightly earlier bloodsuck v.

1. figurative. The action of preying on another's money, possessions, or other resources; extortion; rapaciousness; sponging.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > parasitism or sponging

bloodsucking1583

parasitism1611

parasitry1663

sponging1677

sponge1693

parasiticalness1727

freeloading1937

1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 1495/1 My Lorde, ye do seeke my bloud, and ye shall haue it: I pray God that ye may be so baptised in it, that ye may therafter loath bloud-sucking, and become a better man.

1626 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God (ed. 2) 232 That Beast of Rome carries away the bell for insatiablenesse in blood-sucking.

1683 Addr. from Boston in London Gaz. No. 1857/3 Not contented with the Blood-sucking of a Monarch so matchless Merciful.

1788 T. Holcroft tr. Life Baron Trenck II. 282 I attacked..the laziness, deceit, licentious gluttony, robbery, and blood-sucking of the monks of Aix la Chapelle.

1836 Times 19 May 4/6 The..danger of exposing the country to the leech-bites and blood-sucking of constituencies.

1857 Belfast News-letter 31 Dec. 1/2 John Monteith and Co. became in some way or other the nucleus of a system of blood-sucking which would have destroyed a much more substantial concern.

1934 H. Miller Let. 29 Dec. in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 283 Surely I couldn't build up friendships purely on a basis of blood-sucking.

2000 W. A. Paterson Unbroken Homes 66 These reforms were thought to reduce the ‘blood sucking’ of rich men's wives, and to preserve the family by reducing the harmful effects of long acrimonious legal battles.

2. The action of feeding on blood. Also in figurative context.

ΚΠ

1856 Nat. Hist. Rev. 3 79 The propensity to blood-sucking is confined to certain genera, which seem to form the like contrast to the rest of this family.

1875 Country Gentleman's Mag. June 445 Horses aged or ailing and doomed to die,..whose fate it is to succumb at last to the voracious blood-sucking of hundreds of these aquatic little creatures.

1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. vii. 221 The sluggish ‘march’ fly..goes about the business of blood-sucking in a lazy..style.

1932 M. Anderson in K. C. Cordell & W. H. Cordell Pulitzer Prize Plays 1918–34 (1935) 759/2 There you sit, an honest liver fluke, arranging the graft for everybody else and refusing to do any blood-sucking on your own account!

1994 B. Gilroy Sunlight on Sweet Water 61 A creature which could flay itself in the darkness of the night..and then be free to indulge in bloodsucking of old folk and helpless babies.

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

bloodsuckingadj.

Brit.

/ˈblʌdsʌkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈblədˌsəkɪŋ/

Forms: see blood n. and sucking adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., sucking adj.

Etymology: < blood n. + sucking adj., after to suck (the) blood (of) (see suck v.), bloodsucker n. Compare slightly earlier bloodsuck v.

1. figurative. That preys upon another's money, possessions, or other resources; rapacious, grasping. Also (in early use): bloodthirsty, murderous.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun]

extortionc1340

askingc1400

extort power1492

exactiona1513

bribing1533

extort1541

pollage?1542

bloodsucking1548

scaffery1555

eviction1560

wringing1589

wresting1611

screwing1680

squeezing1681

extortinga1711

wringing1730

over-pull1867

Rachmanism1963

Rachmanship1963

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adjective]

writhinga1529

torcenous1532

bloodsucking1548

racking1576

exacting1583

extorting1598

extortious1607

sharking1608

wringing1620

exactious1630

extortionizing1630

extortionable1632

extortioninga1641

extortionous1644

extortive1646

screwing1647

extracting1654

hirudinous1654

rack-renting1779

extortionate1789

extortionary1805

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John vii. f. lvii^v This man sawe his felowes with bloud suckyng myndes, tende to the vtter destruccion of Iesus.

?1569 H. Gough tr. B. Georgijević Ofspring House of Ottomanno sig. Kviii Commaundement beynge geuen to sette forwarde, after fewe dayes the bloud suckyng father dothe folowe hys armye.

1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. D Blood sucking Auarice.

1648 Hunting of Fox 17 Cannibals..compar'd with the Blood-sucking Sectaries, lose the style of cruelty.

1705 E. Ward Secret Hist. Calves-head Club (ed. 5) 62 Therefore in how miserable a Condition must a Nation be, that is over-run and trampled upon by an ungovernable number of such Blood-sucking Vermin.

a1784 R. Munford Coll. Plays & Poems (1798) 206 Those blood-sucking, beer-drinking puppies retreat; But our peach-brandy fellows can never be beat.

1811 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 30 Jan. 226 The Courier..has all the blood-sucking Anti-Jacobin crew at its back, whose gall must be fed.

1893 Chautauquan 17 Apr. 676/2 The capitalists, corporations, and blood-sucking banks, and the rapacious trust and loan companies have fastened their fangs upon the farms.

1926 Times 17 Aug. 9/1 An agitator..promised to expel the ‘blood-sucking foreigner’.

1977 R. Mehta Inside Haveli ii. ix. 138 One day I will tell him he is a blood-sucking money-lender.

2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian xviii. 188 Of course he's having financial difficulties, because of that bloodsucking wife of his.

2. That feeds on blood. Also in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devouring

nimminga1225

devouringa1382

swallowinga1400

whelmingc1440

consumingc1475

wide-mouthed1567

devoratory1647

consumptive1651

bloodsucking1658

involving1737

engulfing1761

the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous > that sucks blood

bloodsucking1836–9

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 936 It is against nature or experience that bloud-sucking mothers, should bring forth a bloud-sucking brood.

1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France 381 The others..never let go their hold till they were fully gorged like blood-sucking Leeches.

1721 tr. P. B. Du-Bois Useful Refl. Several Subj. Pref. sig. a4^v He made use of a familiar Fable of a Fox, which was over-run by a Herd of Blood-sucking Vermin called Tikes.

1794 T. Johnston Gen. View Agric. Selkirk 43 The braxy, and the tick (a blood-sucking animal), are diseases very destructive to sheep in some parts of this county.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 907/2 The mouth is formed..as in the blood-sucking Diptera.

1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby xxviii. 267 Their forces were evidently powerless to rid the poor hapless creature of its blood-sucking tormentors.

1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know vii. 95 During every day the swallows are with us they must consume billions and trillions of blood-sucking insects.

1934 Mod. Psychologist June 17/1 This new specialty in medicine..provided media for the growth of a brand new type of parasite, with all the bloodsucking proclivities of a bucketful of leeches.

1987 N.Y. Times 31 July c21/1 ‘My own brother is a bloodsucking vampire,’ he yells, ‘You wait till Mom finds out.’

2008 Science 11 July 183/3 She suspects that bat flies and other blood-sucking parasites may be carriers of the disease.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	bloodsucking
释义	bloodsuckingn. Brit. /ˈblʌdsʌkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈblədˌsəkɪŋ/ Forms: see blood n. and sucking n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., sucking n.¹ Etymology: < blood n. + sucking n.¹, after to suck (the) blood (of) (see suck v.). Compare earlier bloodsucker n. and slightly earlier bloodsuck v. 1. figurative. The action of preying on another's money, possessions, or other resources; extortion; rapaciousness; sponging. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > parasitism or sponging bloodsucking1583 parasitism1611 parasitry1663 sponging1677 sponge1693 parasiticalness1727 freeloading1937 1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 1495/1 My Lorde, ye do seeke my bloud, and ye shall haue it: I pray God that ye may be so baptised in it, that ye may therafter loath bloud-sucking, and become a better man. 1626 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God (ed. 2) 232 That Beast of Rome carries away the bell for insatiablenesse in blood-sucking. 1683 Addr. from Boston in London Gaz. No. 1857/3 Not contented with the Blood-sucking of a Monarch so matchless Merciful. 1788 T. Holcroft tr. Life Baron Trenck II. 282 I attacked..the laziness, deceit, licentious gluttony, robbery, and blood-sucking of the monks of Aix la Chapelle. 1836 Times 19 May 4/6 The..danger of exposing the country to the leech-bites and blood-sucking of constituencies. 1857 Belfast News-letter 31 Dec. 1/2 John Monteith and Co. became in some way or other the nucleus of a system of blood-sucking which would have destroyed a much more substantial concern. 1934 H. Miller Let. 29 Dec. in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 283 Surely I couldn't build up friendships purely on a basis of blood-sucking. 2000 W. A. Paterson Unbroken Homes 66 These reforms were thought to reduce the ‘blood sucking’ of rich men's wives, and to preserve the family by reducing the harmful effects of long acrimonious legal battles. 2. The action of feeding on blood. Also in figurative context. ΚΠ 1856 Nat. Hist. Rev. 3 79 The propensity to blood-sucking is confined to certain genera, which seem to form the like contrast to the rest of this family. 1875 Country Gentleman's Mag. June 445 Horses aged or ailing and doomed to die,..whose fate it is to succumb at last to the voracious blood-sucking of hundreds of these aquatic little creatures. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. vii. 221 The sluggish ‘march’ fly..goes about the business of blood-sucking in a lazy..style. 1932 M. Anderson in K. C. Cordell & W. H. Cordell Pulitzer Prize Plays 1918–34 (1935) 759/2 There you sit, an honest liver fluke, arranging the graft for everybody else and refusing to do any blood-sucking on your own account! 1994 B. Gilroy Sunlight on Sweet Water 61 A creature which could flay itself in the darkness of the night..and then be free to indulge in bloodsucking of old folk and helpless babies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bloodsuckingadj. Brit. /ˈblʌdsʌkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈblədˌsəkɪŋ/ Forms: see blood n. and sucking adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., sucking adj. Etymology: < blood n. + sucking adj., after to suck (the) blood (of) (see suck v.), bloodsucker n. Compare slightly earlier bloodsuck v. 1. figurative. That preys upon another's money, possessions, or other resources; rapacious, grasping. Also (in early use): bloodthirsty, murderous. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] extortionc1340 askingc1400 extort power1492 exactiona1513 bribing1533 extort1541 pollage?1542 bloodsucking1548 scaffery1555 eviction1560 wringing1589 wresting1611 screwing1680 squeezing1681 extortinga1711 wringing1730 over-pull1867 Rachmanism1963 Rachmanship1963 the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adjective] writhinga1529 torcenous1532 bloodsucking1548 racking1576 exacting1583 extorting1598 extortious1607 sharking1608 wringing1620 exactious1630 extortionizing1630 extortionable1632 extortioninga1641 extortionous1644 extortive1646 screwing1647 extracting1654 hirudinous1654 rack-renting1779 extortionate1789 extortionary1805 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John vii. f. lvii^v This man sawe his felowes with bloud suckyng myndes, tende to the vtter destruccion of Iesus. ?1569 H. Gough tr. B. Georgijević Ofspring House of Ottomanno sig. Kviii Commaundement beynge geuen to sette forwarde, after fewe dayes the bloud suckyng father dothe folowe hys armye. 1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. D Blood sucking Auarice. 1648 Hunting of Fox 17 Cannibals..compar'd with the Blood-sucking Sectaries, lose the style of cruelty. 1705 E. Ward Secret Hist. Calves-head Club (ed. 5) 62 Therefore in how miserable a Condition must a Nation be, that is over-run and trampled upon by an ungovernable number of such Blood-sucking Vermin. a1784 R. Munford Coll. Plays & Poems (1798) 206 Those blood-sucking, beer-drinking puppies retreat; But our peach-brandy fellows can never be beat. 1811 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 30 Jan. 226 The Courier..has all the blood-sucking Anti-Jacobin crew at its back, whose gall must be fed. 1893 Chautauquan 17 Apr. 676/2 The capitalists, corporations, and blood-sucking banks, and the rapacious trust and loan companies have fastened their fangs upon the farms. 1926 Times 17 Aug. 9/1 An agitator..promised to expel the ‘blood-sucking foreigner’. 1977 R. Mehta Inside Haveli ii. ix. 138 One day I will tell him he is a blood-sucking money-lender. 2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian xviii. 188 Of course he's having financial difficulties, because of that bloodsucking wife of his. 2. That feeds on blood. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devouring nimminga1225 devouringa1382 swallowinga1400 whelmingc1440 consumingc1475 wide-mouthed1567 devoratory1647 consumptive1651 bloodsucking1658 involving1737 engulfing1761 the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous > that sucks blood bloodsucking1836–9 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 936 It is against nature or experience that bloud-sucking mothers, should bring forth a bloud-sucking brood. 1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France 381 The others..never let go their hold till they were fully gorged like blood-sucking Leeches. 1721 tr. P. B. Du-Bois Useful Refl. Several Subj. Pref. sig. a4^v He made use of a familiar Fable of a Fox, which was over-run by a Herd of Blood-sucking Vermin called Tikes. 1794 T. Johnston Gen. View Agric. Selkirk 43 The braxy, and the tick (a blood-sucking animal), are diseases very destructive to sheep in some parts of this county. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 907/2 The mouth is formed..as in the blood-sucking Diptera. 1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby xxviii. 267 Their forces were evidently powerless to rid the poor hapless creature of its blood-sucking tormentors. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know vii. 95 During every day the swallows are with us they must consume billions and trillions of blood-sucking insects. 1934 Mod. Psychologist June 17/1 This new specialty in medicine..provided media for the growth of a brand new type of parasite, with all the bloodsucking proclivities of a bucketful of leeches. 1987 N.Y. Times 31 July c21/1 ‘My own brother is a bloodsucking vampire,’ he yells, ‘You wait till Mom finds out.’ 2008 Science 11 July 183/3 She suspects that bat flies and other blood-sucking parasites may be carriers of the disease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1583adj.1548
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