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suckn.1

Brit. /sʌk/, U.S. /sək/
Forms: Also Middle English souke, 1500s Scottish sowk, sulk, 1500s–1600s sucke, 1700s–1800s dialect souk, sook.
Etymology: < suck v. Compare sock n.3
1.
a. The action or an act of sucking milk from the breast; the milk or other fluid sucked at one time. at suck, engaged in sucking.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant
sockc1000
suck13..
nourishingc1325
nursing?1533
lactation1668
suckling1842
breastfeeding1858
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adverb] > sucking
at suck1851
13.. S. Gregory (Vernon MS.) 191 Whon heo hedde iȝiue þe child a souke.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 107 My new spanit howffing fra the sowk.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxviii. B The children, which are weened from suck or taken from the brestes.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm2 O mother of mine, what a deathfull sucke haue you geuen me?
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xxx. 81 Who loved Rome's wolf, with demi-gods at suck, Or ere we loved truth's own divinity.
1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black i. vii. 117 He wants everything, even a literal suck of your blood.
b. The application of suction by the mouth either to an external object (e.g. a wound, a pipe) or internally.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > absorption or assimilation (of a substance, etc.) > [noun] > suction
suction1626
suck1760
1760 L. Sterne in H. D. Traill Sterne (1882) v. 53 I saw the cut, gave it [sc. my finger] a suck, wrapt it up, and thought no more about it.
1850 G. Cupples Green Hand ii. 19/2 A rough voice..was chanting the sea-song..in a curious, sleepy kind of drone, interrupted every now and then by the suck of his pipe.
1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin ii. 12 Toastin' his taes at a roarin' peat-fire, an' takin' a quiet sook o' his rusty cutty.
1895 T. Hardy Jude i. vi. 43 She gave..an adroit little suck to the interior of each of her cheeks.
c. An act of fellatio. coarse slang.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > [noun] > fellatio > act of
gamahuche1865
cocksuck1940
suck1941
blow job1961
head job1963
gobble1965
gam1971
headfuck1974
1941 G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. 1177 A real suck seems to be one in which orgasm and ejaculation are induced.
1972 Screw 12 June 21/2 They start their separate ways through a variety of fucks and sucks and lesbian encounters.
2. A small draught of liquid; a drink, a sup.
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the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught > small drink or sip
supeOE
sopec1000
drillc1440
sippeta1529
sowp1568
swope1617
sip1633
suck1633
swope1639
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts i. i. sig. B1 Welborne. No bouze? nor no Tobacco? Tapwell. Not a sucke Sir, Nor the remainder of a single canne.
1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 362 There sat a bottle in a bole..And ay she took the tither souk, To drouk the stourie tow.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. 27 'Tis a soupe-au-vin... Have a suck.
†3.
a. Milk sucked (or to be sucked) from the breast; mother's milk. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > mother's milk
mother-milka1425
mother's milk?a1513
breast milk1579
suck1584
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > milk > [noun]
milkeOE
suck1584
ninny1909
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxvii. 215 To olde men, wine is as sucke to yong children.
1591 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 144 If the said John Richardson..doe cause the said Bastard Childe to be sufficiently nursed..and kept, with apparell, Suck, attendinge, and all other necessaries nedfull or belonging to such a childe.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 48 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Yong Children..drawe into themselves, together with their sucke, even the nature and disposition of their nurses.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 111 Their dam hath no suck for them, til she hath bene six or seauen houres with the male.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vi. v. 136 Therefore when Children have it from their Suck, let the Nurse be changed.
†b. figurative. Sustenance. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > sustenance or nourishment
foodOE
fosterc1000
fodnethOE
flittinga1225
livenotha1225
nourishingc1300
sustenancec1300
livelihoodc1325
nurture1340
fosteringc1386
livingc1405
nouriturea1425
nutriment?a1425
nutrition?a1425
lifehood1440
reliefa1450
nourishmentc1450
nurshingc1450
sustentationc1450
nutrimentc1485
alimenta1500
sustainmenta1500
bielda1522
creature1540
suck1584
mantiniment1588
fosterment1593
the three M's1938
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxi. 188 I had rather be without sucke, than that any man through his intemperate feeding should haue cause to fee me or feede me.
†4. Strong drink; tipple. slang. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]
drink1042
liquor1340
bousea1350
cidera1382
dwale1393
sicera1400
barrelc1400
strong drinkc1405
watera1475
swig1548
tipple1581
amber1598
tickle-brain1598
malt pie1599
swill1602
spicket1615
lap1618
John Barleycornc1625
pottle1632
upsy Englisha1640
upsy Friese1648
tipplage1653
heartsease1668
fuddle1680
rosin1691
tea1693
suck1699
guzzlea1704
alcohol1742
the right stuff1748
intoxicant1757
lush1790
tear-brain1796
demon1799
rum1799
poison1805
fogram1808
swizzle1813
gatter1818
wine(s) and spirit(s)1819
mother's milkc1821
skink1823
alcoholics1832
jough1834
alky1844
waipiro1845
medicine1847
stimulant1848
booze1859
tiddly1859
neck oil1860
lotion1864
shrab1867
nose paint1880
fixing1882
wet1894
rabbit1895
shicker1900
jollop1920
mule1920
giggle-water1929
rookus juice1929
River Ouse1931
juice1932
lunatic soup1933
wallop1933
skimish1936
sauce1940
turps1945
grog1946
joy juice1960
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Suck, Wine or strong Drink. This is rum Suck, it is excellent Tipple.
5. The drawing of air by suction; occasionally a draught or current of air; spec. in Coal Mining, the backward suction of air following an explosion of fire-damp.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > producing blast or current of air > drawing in of air > by suction
suck1668
insuction1883
1668 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 582 About the seventh suck, it [sc. phosphorescent rotten wood] seemed to grow a little more dim.
1848 C. Kingsley Yeast i A cold suck of wind just proved its existence by tooth-aches on the north side of all faces.
1880 Leeds Mercury 13 Sept. 8 The pit took a ‘suck’ again and the air current, such as it was, came right.
6. The sucking action of eddying or swirling water; the sound caused by this; locally, the place at which a body of water moves in such a way as to suck objects into its vortex. suck of the ground: see quot. 1893.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [noun]
swallowa700
weelc897
suckc1220
swallowinga1387
swelthc1400
swirlc1425
gorce1480
vorage1490
whirlpool1530
gourd1538
gulf1538
poolc1540
hurlpool1552
whirlpit1564
sea-gulf1571
maelstrom1588
vorago1654
well1654
gurges1664
gurge1667
swelchiea1688
vortex1704
tourbillion1712
whirly-pool1727
wheel-pit1828
sea-puss1839
turn-hole1851
suck-hole1909
c1220 Bestiary 578 Ðe sipes sinken mitte suk, ne cumen he nummor up.
1778 T. Hutchins Topogr. Descr. Virginia 32 About 200 miles above these shoals, is, what is called, the Whirl, or Suck, occasioned, I imagine, by the high mountain, which there confines the River.1850 G. Cupples Green Hand viii. 86/1 By this time we were already in the suck of the channel.1863 ‘W. Lancaster’ Praeterita 41 Its hissing suck of waves.1878 T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 112 When the pilot..finds that she will not obey the helm, he knows that he is within the suck of the whirlpool of Charybdis.1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 227 The suck of the water was very strong, and I could feel it pull me back like a strong current.1893 Leisure Hour 679 A ship is always faster in deep water than in shallow, owing to what seamen call the suck of the ground, which is only a way of saying that the bulk a ship displaces must be in small proportion to the depth beneath her keel if it is to spread itself readily around her.1904 W. Churchill Crossing ii. x. 364 The mighty current..lashed itself into a hundred sucks and whirls.
7. slang. A deception; a disappointing event or result. Also suck-in.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
swikec893
swikedomc893
dwalec950
braida1000
falsec1000
flerdc1000
swikelnessa1023
fakenOE
chuffingc1175
fikenungc1175
bipechingc1200
treachery?c1225
falseshipc1230
guilec1230
telingc1230
swikeheada1250
craftc1275
felony1297
wrench1297
deceitc1300
gabc1300
guiling13..
guilery1303
quaintisec1325
wrenk1338
beswiking1340
falsehood1340
abetc1350
wissing1357
wilec1374
faitery1377
faiting1377
tregetryc1380
fallacec1384
trainc1390
coverture1393
facrere1393
ficklenessc1397
falsagea1400
tregeta1400
abusionc1405
blearingc1405
deceptionc1430
mean?c1430
tricotc1430
obreption1465
fallacy1481
japery1496
gauderya1529
fallax1530
conveyance1531
legerdemain1532
dole1538
trompe1547
joukery1562
convoyance1578
forgery1582
abetment1586
outreaching1587
chicanery1589
falsery1594
falsity1603
fubbery1604
renaldry1612
supercherie1621
circumduction1623
fobbinga1627
dice-play1633
beguile1637
fallaxitya1641
ingannation1646
hocus1652
renardism1661
dodgerya1670
knapping1671
trap1681
joukery-pawkery1686
jugglery1699
take-in1772
tripotage1779
trickery1801
ruse1807
dupery1816
nailing1819
pawkery1820
hanky-panky1841
hokey-pokey1847
suck-in1856
phenakisma1863
skulduggery1867
sharp practice1869
dodginess1871
jiggery-pokery1893
flim-flammery1898
runaround1915
hanky1924
to give the go-around1925
Scandiknavery1927
the twist1933
hype1955
mamaguy1971
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > that which disappoints
apple of Sodom1635
disappointment1843
suck-in1856
anticlimax1858
sell1890
lemon1909
damp squib1963
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun]
defraudc1450
defraudationc1503
fraudingc1530
defrauding1548
cheateryc1555
cheatingc1555
versing1591
begeckc1600
sharking1602
shaving1606
rooking1635
defraudment1645
emunging1664
prowlerya1670
bilking1687
sharping1692
mace1742
fineering1765
swindling1769
highway robbery1777
macing1811
flat-catching1821
ramping1830
swindlery1833
rigging1846
diddlinga1849
suck-in1856
daylight robbery1863
cooking1873
bunco-steering1875
chousing1881
fiddling1884
verneukery1896
padding1900
verneukering1900
bobol1907
swizzle1913
ramp1915
swizz1915
chizzing1948
tweedling1975
1856 J. Dow Serm. II. 316 A monstrous humbug—a grand suck in.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 639 Suck in, as a noun and as a verb, is a graphic Western phrase to express deception.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Suck, Suck-in, an imposition, a disappointment.
8. plural. Sweetmeats. Also collective singular. colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun]
sweetmeat?a1500
candy1587
spice1674
lollipop1784
sweet-stuff1835
goody1853
sucks1858
pogey bait1918
1858 T. Hughes Scouring of White Horse vi. 110 Nuts and apples, and ginger-bread, and all sorts of sucks and food.
1865 Good Words 6 125 They sometimes get a ‘knob o' suck’ (a piece of sweetstuff) on Saturday.
†9. A breast-pocket. Criminals' slang. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > pocket > types of
French pocket1675
side pocket1678
breast pocket1758
suck1821
watch-pocket1831
patch pocket1895
insider1896
prat1908
sidekick1916
bellows pocket1922
pannier pocket1922
welt pocket1932
slit pocket1933
1821 Life D. Haggart 26 He returned the screaves to his lil, and placed it in his suck.
1923 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 Oct. 716/1 I..pulled the dub of the outer jigger from his suck.
10. slang. A sycophant; esp. a schoolboy who curries favour with teachers. Cf. to suck up 5 at suck v. Phrasal verbs 2; sucker-up n. at sucker n. Compounds 2.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > sycophantic pupil
suck1900
sucker-up1911
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer
papelard1340
placeboc1395
fawnerc1440
pickthank1460
adulator?a1475
earwigc1475
curry-favel1515
men-pleaser1526
gnatho1533
upcreeperc1540
claw-back1549
curry-favourer1563
man-pleaser1564
claw-poll1569
please-man1570
sycophant1575
curry-favour1577
capper1587
insinuator1598
clawera1603
scrape-shoe1607
suck-fist1611
courtiera1616
foot lickera1616
fleerera1627
wriggler1631
fawn1635
limberham1689
toad-eater1742
tuft-hunter1755
arse-kisser1766
sleeve-creeper1809
lick-spit1822
lickspittle1825
shoe-licker1826
toady1826
toad1831
toader1842
bootlicker1846
bootlick1849
favour-currier1855
lubricator1872
bum-sucker1877
handshaker1884
suck1900
mbongo1911
sucker-up1911
apple-polisher1918
snurge1933
ass-licker1939
brown-nose1939
brown-noser1942
arse-licker1951
ass-kisser1951
greaser1959
suck-hole1966
suck-up1970
bumboy1984
fly-
1900 J. S. Farmer Public School Word-bk. 197 Suck, subs. (University), a parasite, a toady.
1907 B. M. Croker Company's Servant xx. 213 He was just a suck—that's all.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 6 We all know why you speak. You are McGlade's suck.
1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. ii. 373 The shade of the boy whom he had not seen since they were boys together (Martin was Father Joseph's ‘suck’) lived on the air as though they had parted only minutes before.
11. plural as int. Used as an expression of contempt, chiefly by children. Also in sucks to you and variants slang.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection]
prut?c1300
trutc1330
truptc1380
ahaa1400
tushc1440
puff1481
quotha?1520
ah?1526
ta ha1528
twish1577
blurt1592
gip1592
pish1592
tantia1593
(God) bless (also save) the mark1593
phah1593
marry come up1597
mew1600
pooh1600
marry muff1602
pew waw1602
ptish1602
pew1604
push1605
pshaw1607
tuh1607
pea1608
poh1650
pooh pooh1694
hoity-toity1695
highty-tighty1699
quoz?1780
indeed1834
shuck1847
skidoo1906
suck1913
zut1915
yah boo1921
pooey1927
ptui1930
snubs1934
upya1941
yah boo sucks1980
1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. vii. 98 This kid's in our army, so sucks!
1922 F. Hamilton P. J.: Secret Service Boy iv. 178 ‘S’, he announced, ‘u,c,k,s,t,o,y,o,u.’
1935 N. Mitchison We have been Warned i. 28 Brian is a baby. Oh sucks, oh sucks on Brian.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. v. 287 It's great sucks to Bridey.
1952 ‘C. Brand’ London Particular xv. 191 A most regretable air of sucks to you.
1968 Melody Maker 30 Nov. 24/5 This is a rotten record—yah boo and sucks.
1974 Times 4 Mar. 9/5 Sucks boo, then, with acting like this, to that new National Theatre down the road.
1978 ‘J. Lymington’ Waking of Stone ii. 45 ‘Sucks to you!’ she said..tossing her head so her pigtails swung.
1983 Listener 19 May 11/1 The council treated the urbane Mr Cook to the politician's equivalent of ‘Yah, boo, sucks’.
12. Canadian slang. A worthless or contemptible person. Cf. suck v. 15f; suck-hole n. at suck- comb. form .
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Mar. 1/6 The teachers are copping out. They're now saying, if we can't have our way, then we're going to be sucks and refuse to work.
1975 Citizen (Ottawa) 28 Oct. 1/1 A neighbor described Rob as ‘a quiet guy who was always getting put down a lot. Lots of people used to call him a suck... He didn't do much socially or in the way of sports.’
13. to give suck: see suck v. 16a.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

suckn.2

Brit. /sʌk/, U.S. /sək/
Forms: Also 1500s sucke.
Etymology: apparently variant of sock n.2 Compare sough n.3
Chiefly north-west and west midlands.
A ploughshare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > ploughshare
shareOE
ploughsharea1387
sock1404
sough?a1475
suck1499
soke1661
plough point1837
1499 Placitum in Blount Law Dict. (1691) (at cited word) Per Sucking, hoc est fore quiet. de illis amerciamentis, quando le Burlimen, id est, supervisores del Ringyord,..præmonit. fuerint ad imparcand. & faciend. clausuras illas simul cum vicinis suis, ille qui non venit ad talem præmonitionem amerciatus erit ad pretium unius vomeris, Anglice a Suck, prætii quatuor denar.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piii/1 Ye Sucke of a plow.
1588 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 149 One sucke and one cultur.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 333/2 The Sough, or Suck, is that as Plows into the ground.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Earth B bb/1 The Plowman..will not..be able to point the Suck where he would.
1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 166 For hoeing, I have shares or sucks, in the shape of a trowel, which I can fix on the points of the drills.
1800 Rob. Nixon's Chesh. Prophecies Verse (1873) 41 Between the sickle and the suck, All England shall have a pluck.
1879 in G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester
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† suckn.3

Forms: also sucke.
Etymology: Variant of suc n., probably influenced by suck v.
Obsolete.
= suc n.
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the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > fluids
humour1340
humiditiesc1400
suck1560
succus1771
tissue fluid1900
the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > fluid, juice, or sap
oozeeOE
sapOE
milkOE
slime?c1225
juicec1290
humoura1398
opiuma1398
watera1425
sop1513
afion1542
suc1551
suck1560
ab1587
lymph1682
blood1690
fluid1705
humidities1725
succus1771
plant milk1896
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion
moisturea1387
juice1398
suck1560
recrement1578
suffusion1608
fluid1705
succus1771
liquor1886
1560 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 2nd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont ii. 14 b The suck or iuice of a radish roote.
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxi. f. 146 The sucke & marow of his bones.
1621 T. Lodge tr. S. Goulart Learned Summary Poeme of Saluste of Bartas i. 270 A liquid and fluent matter, composed of that sucke which furnisheth the Stomacke.
1631 A. B. tr. L. Lessius De Providentia Numinis 110 The fruit serues for the continuance of the seed,..and therefore they are more full of suck.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. 303 Succinum is a Bituminous suck or juice of the earth.
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suckv.

Brit. /sʌk/, U.S. /sək/
Forms: present stem Old English sucan, Middle English suke(n, Middle English souken, Middle English–1500s souke, sowke, Middle English–1600s soke, Middle English–1600s sucke, (Middle English sooke, soukke, socon, sugke, suk, Scottish swk, Kent. zouke, Middle English, 1800s Scottish sook, 1500s soucke, sowk, suke, soulk, Scottish soik, sulk, 1500s, 1800s souk, 1500s–1600s souck, 1600s Anglo-Irish shoke, 1700s dialect seawke), 1500s– suck. past tense. α. strong Old English * seac, (plural sucon, sucun), Middle English suke, Middle English sæc, soc, Middle English sec, sok, sek(e, Middle English soke, Middle English secke, sak, souk(e, sowk(e, swoke, Middle English sook; β. weak Middle English soukid, sowkid, Scottish swkyt, Middle English souked, Middle English–1500s sowked, 1500s sokid, 1500s–1700s suck'd, suckt, 1500s– sucked. past participle α. strong Old English socen, Middle English sokun, suken, soke, i-soke, Middle English soken, sokyn, 1600s sucken; β. weak Middle English soukid, Scottish sukit, Middle English–1500s sowked, 1500s souked, soukit, sowkit, 1500s–1700s suck'd, suckt, 1600s suckd, 1500s– sucked.
Etymology: Old English súcan, corresponding to Latin sūgĕre, Old Irish sūgim, < root sūg-. A parallel root sūk- (compare Latin sūcus juice) is represented by Old English súgan, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch sûgen (Dutch zuigen), Old High German sûgan (Middle High German sûgen, German saugen), Old Norse súga. This verb is related by ablaut to soak , with which there is some contact of meaning, see sense 21 below, sucking adj. 5, and soak v. 8b, 8c, 10.
I. To draw liquid into the mouth, and related uses.
1.
a. transitive. To draw (liquid, esp. milk from the breast) into the mouth by contracting the muscles of the lips, cheeks, and tongue so as to produce a partial vacuum.
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the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (transitive)] > draw milk from breast
suckc825
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > suck
suckc825
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > suck > milk or the breast
suckc825
lap1562
milka1616
suckle1971
c825 Vesp. Hymns vii Sucun hunig of stane & ele of trumum stane.
c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) viii. 2 Of ðæra cild muðe, þe meolc sucað, þu byst hered.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 488 Ða ongunnon ealle ða næddran to ceowenne heora flæsc and heora blod sucan.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 244 He sec. þe milc þet him fedde.
a1300 X Commandm. 39 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 16 Besech we him..þat sok þe milk of maid-is brest.
a1400 K. Alis. 6119 They..Soken heore blod, heore flesch to-gnowe.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) ii. 5 So sat þe toode alle þat ȝere, and secke his blod.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxx The calfe woll souke asmoche mylke or it be able to kyll, as it is worth.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 144 The Milke thou suckst from her did turne to Marble. View more context for this quotation
1710 W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes (1722) xi. 45 He is said to have gain'd his Immortality by the Milk he suckt from her.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 70 The weasel, where it once fastens, holds, and continuing also to suck the blood at the same time, weakens its antagonist.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1058 If an ewe gives more milk than its lamb will suck.
1825 W. Scott Talisman viii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 160 Suck the poison from his wound one of you.
1848 A. Steinmetz Hist. Jesuits I. 212 Ignatius..even applied his mouth to their ulcers, and sucked the purulent discharge.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxii. 563 The knowing way in which he sipped, or rather sucked, the Johannisberger.
b. Of flies, etc. drawing blood, bees extracting honey from flowers; also of flowers ‘drinking’ the dew, etc.
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the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (intransitive)] > suck
suckc1000
suck1340
sucka1616
the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (transitive)] > suck
suck1340
the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [verb (transitive)] > suck or draw in nutriment
suck1820
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 136 Þe smale uleȝe þet..of þe floures zoucþ þane deau huerof hi makeþ þet hony.
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 180 The flyes thyke lay on hym that his blode soke.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 66 Many flyes satte vpon the soores and souked his blood.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 109 Drones sucke not Eagles blood, but rob Bee-hiues. View more context for this quotation
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 24 in Justa Edouardo King Throw hither all your quaint enammell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showres.
1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. iv. 6 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) The Bee and the Spider suck honey and poison out of one Flower.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 108 Night-folded flowers Shall suck unwitting hues in their repose.
1833 W. Wordsworth Warning 33 Like the bee That sucks from mountain-heath her honey fee.
c. to suck the blood of (fig.): to exhaust the resources of, drain the life out of. (Cf. bloodsuck v.)
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > consume all that is profitable in
to suck the eggs of1576
to suck the blood of1583
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B6v He meaneth to sucke thy bloud.
1584 R. Greene Myrrour of Modestie sig. Aviv These two cursed caitifes..concluded when they might finde hir alone, to sucke the bloude of this innocent lambe.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 49 The Lieutenant, cruelly to sucke their blood, and the Procuratour as greedy to preie upon their substance.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. viii. 142 The wealth he had acquired by sucking the blood of his miserable victims had but swelled him like a bottled spider.
d. to suck one's fill: see fill n.1 1a.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > suck > at breast
suckc1000
to suck one's fillc1475
suckle1688
nurse1696
nipple1989
c1475 Songs & Carols xlvi. (Percy Soc.) 50 He toke hyr lovely by the pape,..And sok hys fyll of the lycowr.
1798 W. Wordsworth Mad Mother in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 145 My little babe! thy lips are still, And thou hast almost suck'd thy fill.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 981 Young calves when permitted to suck their fill are often seized with a looseness.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 23 I wad wuss ye, if Gowans, the brockit cow, has a quey, that she suld suck her fill of milk.
e. transferred and figurative or in figurative context.
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13.. Bonaventura's Medit. 277 Þys sermoun at crystys brest slepyng he soke.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xiii. 55 Crist..bad hem souken of hus brest sauete for synne.
1580 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 103 Thocht source I souck not on the sacred hill.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Sonn. lxxiii Because a sugared kiss In sport I suckt.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. E Had she then gaue ouer, Such nectar from his lips she had not suckt . View more context for this quotation
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 92 Death that hath suckt the honey of thy breath. View more context for this quotation
1600 Catholic Tractates 245 Ye may sie what venemous poyson thay souk out of the Ministers breists.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. i. sig. G2 Studious contemplation sucks the iuyce From wisards cheekes.
1604 W. Alexander Crœsus i. i Faire Citie, where mine eyes first suck't the light.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 87 From you great Rome shall sucke Reuiuing blood. View more context for this quotation
1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 193 Thou shalt from all things suck Marrow of mirth and laughter.
f. (See quot. 1960.) With person or part as object. Cf. sense to suck off at Phrasal verbs 2 below. coarse slang.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > practise oral sex on or with [verb (transitive)]
gamahuche?1788
to go downc1895
gam1910
eat1927
Frenchc1928
suck1928
plate1961
1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy Western N. Amer. (1935) 78 I suck cocks for fun.
1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 527/2 Suck v.i., v.t. 1 [taboo] to perform cunnilingus or, esp., fellatio.
1972 Screw 12 June 21/2 Characters fuck and suck each other like real people do.
1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 79 You heard what I said, bitch..take me to dinner and suck mah dick and et cetera fa dessert.
2. To imbibe (qualities, etc.) with the mother's milk. (Cf. 5.)
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > receive or imbibe
receivec1384
conceivea1450
catch1533
suck1586
to suck ina1640
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 176 As if we had sucked iniquitie togither with our nurses milke.
1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 12v That first and tender age of infancie..oftentimes with the milke sucketh the conditions of the Nursse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. ii. 129 Thy Valiantnesse was mine, thou suck'st it from me. View more context for this quotation
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat i. i. sig. B2 I thinke they sucke this knowledge in their milke.
3. To extract or draw (moisture, goodness, etc.) from or out of a thing; to absorb into itself.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by or as by suction > from or out of
sucka1398
suck1693
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxvi. 1022 Þe pith of þis russhe is good to drawe water out of þe erþe [read ere], for he soukeþ it kyndeliche.
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Aiiijv Fra tyme that onis thy sell [sc. Phœbus] The vapouris softlie sowkis with smyling cheare.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 39 The noysome weedes which..sucke The soiles fertilitie from wholsome flowers. View more context for this quotation
1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 71 Great and large Trees do suck and draw the fertility of the ground exceedingly.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 62 Oft whole sheets descend of slucy Rain, Suck'd by the spongy Clouds from off the Main.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 103 Let 'em [sc. Mares] suck the Seed with greedy force; And there enclose the Vigour of the Horse.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 143 She..sees a great black cloud..suck the blinding splendour from the sand.
1880 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 756 Treat all suckers as weeds, cutting them down..before they have sucked half the life out of the bearing hill.
†4. To draw or extract (money, wealth) from a source. Also in early use intransitive with partitive of. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend [verb (transitive)]
aspendc885
doOE
spendc1175
spenec1175
dispendc1330
bewarec1374
bestow1377
suckc1380
unpursea1393
warea1417
stowc1440
to lay outc1449
spone1456
expend1477
expend1484
impendc1486
ware?a1513
deburse?1529
disburse1530
defray1543
unburse1570
outlay1573
to lay forth1584
sweat1592
vent1612
dispursea1616
exhaust1616
to set forth1622
waste1639
depursea1648
fence1699
douse1759
shut1797
shift1923
the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [verb (intransitive)] > suck or draw in nutriment
suck1610
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 187 Þes prelatis..cunnen summone þe Chirche..from oo place to anoþer, to sooke of her moneye.
c1386 G. Chaucer Cook's Tale 52 To sowke Of that he brybe kan or borwe may.
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iv. 9 Sellynge, þat sowkid siluer rith ffaste.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 756 Hauing first cunningly suckt a great masse of money from the credulous King.
5. To derive or extract (information, comfort, profit, etc.) from, †of, or out of. (Cf. sense 2.)
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the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain from a source or derive
takec1175
drawa1300
to take out of ——1483
suck1535
to suck out1546
derive1561
extract1596
to take up1610
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxii. 10 There out sucke they no small auauntage.
1539 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 176 Communications at large sucked of hym.
1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 10 He made those notes sucked out of John Bale.
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C Hast thou worne gownes in the Uniuersity, Lost logick, suckt Philosophy?
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 103 In Trauailing in one Country he shall sucke the Experience of many.
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 95 Ægypt Schools..From whence he suckt this knowledg.
1715 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 109 Spinosa..suck'd the first Seeds of Atheism from the famous Francis Vanden Ende.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 111 He sucks intelligence in ev'ry clime.
1822 C. Lamb Compl. Decay of Beggars in Elia 1st Ser. Much good might be sucked from these Beggars.
1908 M. S. Rawson Easy go Luckies xxi Had he been a scholar he might have sucked a sort of delicately pungent comfort from an epigram of Tacitus.
1914 Marett in Folk-Lore XXV. 20 The active conditions that enable us to suck strength and increase out of the passive conditions comprised under the term environment.
†6. To draw (air, breath) into the mouth; to inhale (air, smoke, etc.). Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > inhalation > inhale [verb (transitive)]
to suck inc1220
drawa1300
inbreathea1382
to draw ina1398
to take in1495
inhaust1547
fetch1552
fet1556
imbreathe1574
to breathe in1576
attract1582
suck?1614
inspirate1615
imbibe1621
inspire1666
redistend1684
inhale1725
embreathe1867
indraw1883
?1614 To Author in W. Drummond Poems To them who on their Hills suckt sacred Breath.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 195 They'll sucke our breath, or pinch vs blacke and blew.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 150 Tobacco suckt through water by long canes or pipes.
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) ii. 15 Some [spirits]..suck the Mists in grosser Air below.
1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 433 See my lips tremble, and my eye-balls roll, Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul!
7. To draw (water, air, etc.) in some direction, esp. by producing a vacuum. Also intransitive for passive of the wind.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > by suction > specific water or air
suck1661
1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse ii, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 189 Having by a certain Artifice out of a large glass..caus'd a certain quantity of air to be suck'd, we found that by immediately applying a Book..to the Orifice of the vessel, the Book was readily lifted up.
1744 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons (new ed.) 164 Old Ocean too, suck'd thro' the porous Globe, Had long ere now forsook his horrid Bed.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 111 Right and left Suck'd from the dark heart of the long hills roll The torrents.
1849 G. Cupples Green Hand xiii The air aloft appeared in the mean time to be steadying and sucking.
1850 G. Cupples Green Hand ii. 11/2 The [gulf] stream sucks the wind with its heat.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. i. 17 Instead of sucking air through the apparatus, heat is to be very cautiously applied to the chlorate.
8.
a. To draw in so as to swallow up or engulf.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > draw in > as a vortex
suck?1523
to suck in1616
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. iv The lande is very tough, and wold soke the plough into the erth.
c1590 Sir Thomas More (1911) 1306 As when a whirle-poole sucks the circkled waters.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 283 Charibdis..in her greedy Whirl-pool sucks the Tides.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna xii. ix. 254 Like the refluence of a mighty wave Sucked into the loud sea.
b. figurative. To draw into a course of action, etc.
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > persuade into an action
manage1702
to gain into1756
suck1771
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 229 I am insensibly sucked into the channel of their manners and customs.
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. i. 9 Small chance will remain of his being sucked into the old system.
1840 T. De Quincey On Essenes: Pt. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 643/2 He is now rapidly approaching to a torrent that will suck him into a new faith.
1899 Ld. Rosebery in Daily News 6 May 4/1 We were sucked into a house dinner.
II. To apply the lips to something in order to draw liquid, and related uses.
9.
a. To apply the lips to (a teat, breast, the mother, nurse, or dam) for the purpose of extracting milk; to draw milk from with the mouth.
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c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints viii. 125 Ne sceamode þe to ceorfanne þæt þæt ðu sylf suce?
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 27 Eadig is se innoð þe þe bær & þa breost þe ðu suce.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6478 & Vther his broðer. þa ȝæt sæc [c1300 Otho soc] his moder.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2506 Þa tittes þat þu suke [c1300 Otho soke] mid þine lippes.
c1275 XI Pains of Hell 135 in Old Eng. Misc. 151 Neddren heore [sc. the women's] breosten sukeþ.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 546 Hyt shulde a go, and sokun ky.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2702 For þe blissful barnes loue þat hire brestes souked.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 267 Hir moder..schewed hir brestes þat eiþer of hem hadde i-soke.
a1400 Octouian 566 We segh..a wonder happe; A manchyld swoke a lyones pappe.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin v. 88 To put youre owne childe to sowken a-nother woman.
1538 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 85 The foll that soukes olde maire.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 177 Ile make you..feede on curds and whay, and sucke the Goate. View more context for this quotation
?1697 J. Lewis Mem. Duke of Glocester (1789) 6 He ordered her to go to bed to the young prince, who soon sucked her.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 473 Thou wast born amid the din of arms, And suck'd a breast that panted with alarms.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 986 When the calf is suffered to suck the mother, it should have the first of the milk.
b. of bees, etc., as in sense 1b.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by or as by suction > with the mouth, etc. > from or out of
suck1426
sip1697
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [verb (transitive)] > extract honey from flowers
suck1665
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 17560 As an yreyne sowketh the flye, And hyr entroylles draweth oute.
1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. F2 How busie the Bees are in sucking these [blossoms].
1812 Kirby in W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entom. (1816) I. 164 (note) A small Melitta, upon which some of these creatures were busy sucking the poor animal.
1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 270/2 Union of many flowers on one inflorescence, which is therefore more conspicuous, and more easily sucked by insects, than single flowers.
c. to suck the hind tit (also teat): to be inferior or have no priority. Also intransitive with on. slang (originally U.S.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > be unimportant [verb (intransitive)] > have no priority
to suck the hind tit (also teat)1940
1940 W. V. T. Clark Ox-bow Incident iv. 244 ‘Well,’ he said, ‘if you like to suck the hind tit.’
1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea iii. vi. 179 You have n't a hope... As far as radar is concerned, corvettes are sucking on the hind tit.
1963 Time 8 Nov. 47 I don't want these kids around here to suck on a hind tit when it comes to getting a good education.
1975 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 31 May 20/2 Radio, no matter what you've read about the Radio Revolution, still sucks the hind teat at the CBC.
10.
a. To apply the lips and tongue (or analogous organs) to (an object) for the purpose of obtaining nourishment; to extract the fluid contents of by such action of the mouth; to absorb (a sweetmeat) in the mouth by the action of the tongue and the muscles of the cheeks.to teach one's grandmother to suck eggs: see teach your grandmother to suck eggs at egg n. 4b. †to suck the eggs of: to extract the ‘goodness’ of, cause to be unproductive. to suck the monkey: see monkey n. Phrases 2. suck it and see (see quot. 1951); later also used attributively and absol. (also with hyphens) to denote experimental methods.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by or as by suction > with the mouth, etc.
suck1340
entersuck1603
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > consume all that is profitable in
to suck the eggs of1576
to suck the blood of1583
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical tests > [noun] > types > by method
dry way1651
suck it and see1951
modulation1964
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6764 Þai sal for threst þe hevedes souke Of þe nedders þat on þam sal rouke.
c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 28 That sory appyl that we han sokyn To dethe hathe brouth my spouse and me.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K.ij Such vnkinde, as let the cukowe flye, To sucke mine eggs.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 171 The weazel Scot Would suck her egs.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iv. ii This sucks the eggs of my inuention.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1067 When he hath his belly full, he laies up the rest of his provant, and hangs them up by a thred to suck them another time.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 81 They may suck their Paws at home in a whole Skin.
1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 17 A wicked Imp..Who prowl'd the country far and near,..And suck'd the eggs, and kill'd the pheasants.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 322 It is a common report, that during this time, they [sc. bears] live by sucking their paws.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 530 If some mere driv'ler suck the sugar'd fib, One that still needs his leading-string and bib.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 204/2 The old ones wants something to suck, and not to chew.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. iii. 63 A grand languid nobleman in a great cap and flowered morning-gown, sucking oranges.
1908 M. S. Rawson Easy go Luckies xviii The policeman's five children (all sucking sweets).
1951 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 4) Add. 1189/2 Suck it and see! A derisive c[atch-]p[hrase] retort current in the 1890's.
1968 New Scientist 3 Oct. 10/1 Biologists..prefer to employ the ‘suck it and see’ approach adopted by Harold Wilson to politics rather than the impractical (?) idealism of Michael Foot.
1973 Nature 2 Mar. 16/2 In the best tradition of ‘suck it and see’ Fowlis has attempted to use such a velocimeter to measure the flow of both mercury and the liquid alloy NaK.
1976 New Scientist 16 Dec. 636/1 Types of experiment that could be usefully or uniquely performed in space:..‘suck-it-and-see’ experiments to explore a new environment (such as the plant growth and spider-web-spinning variety).
1979 SLR Camera June 42/3 It's difficult to lay down any hard and fast recommendations for using fill-in lighting; it's really a suck-it-and-see situation.
b. To apply the tongue and inner sides of the lips to (one's teeth) so as to extract particles of food.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > suck > suck the teeth
sucka1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 192 When my knightly stomacke is suffis'd, Why then I sucke my teeth.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth xxii. 106 The people at Croixmare couldn't have eaten worse than Mr. Sweetson;..he sucked his teeth when he had finished.
11. transferred.
a. To draw the moisture, goodness, etc. from.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by or as by suction > from or out of
sucka1398
suck1693
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Reflect. Agric. vii. 51 in Compl. Gard'ner Without doubt the Earth would not grow Lank, Meagre, and Hungry, as it does, if the Plants did not Suck it just as Animals do their Dams.
1731 J. Tull New Horse-houghing Husbandry 72 'Tis certain that Turnips, when they stand for Seed, suck and impoverish the Ground exceedingly.
1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia v. 134 In forest glades A fierce sun sucked the pools.
b. To work (a pump) dry. Cf. sense 19.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > work (a pump) dry
suck1753
1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 156/2 About four in the afternoon the pump was sucked.
1857 in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1858) 5 8 After sucking the pumps, I had to keep one pump..at work.
c. To cling closely to.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > adhere to
suck1859
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 18 Monstrous ivy-stems..suck'd the joining of the stones.
12. To draw money, information, or the like from (a person); to rob (a person or thing) of its resouces or support; to drain, ‘bleed’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > fleece
milk?1531
shred1548
suck1558
shear1570
fleece1575
shave1606
unfleece1609
jib1728
skin1819
sweat1847
society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > get information from
unmaw1631
suck1752
debrief1945
1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 17 He will..make waiste, sucke the Quene, or pynche the poore or all thre.
1617 Sir T. Roe in Embassy (1899) 419 In hope to gett, no man can escape him [the King]; when hee hath suckd them, hee will not knowe them.
1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 20 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) V. 1837 When you are with des gens de robe, suck them with regard to the constitution, and civil government.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 178 And o' three shillings Scottish souk him.
1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 237 The land sucked of its nourishment, by a small class of legitimates.
1856 Kingsley in N. Brit. Rev. XXV. 22 Fathers became gradually personages who are to be disobeyed, sucked of their money, [etc.].
1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 174 Who..suck the commonwealth to feed their ease.
13.
a. With predicative adjective: To render so-and-so by sucking.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > suck > render by sucking
suck1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 742/2 You shall se hym sucke him selfe asleepe.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 302 In the next morning let them [sc. foals] be admitted to sucke their belly full.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 305 Dost thou not see my Baby at my breast, That suckes the Nurse asleepe. View more context for this quotation
1715 F. Slave Vindic. Sugars 54 This Liquor invited all Sorts of Flies to it,..many of them did suck themselves drunk.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1058 [The ewes] are..held by the head till the lambs by turns suck them clean.
1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 11 Bees will suck themselves tipsy upon varieties like the sops-of-wine.
b. to suck dry, to extract all the moisture or liquid out of by suction; figurative, to exhaust.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > remove water or moisture from > by suction
to suck dry1592
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > use up completely or exhaust
stanch1338
exhaust1541
soak1577
tire1589
to suck dry1592
to run away with1622
exantlate1660
to spin out1718
rack1778
overteem1818
deplete1850
to stream out1894
1592 Arden of Feversham ii. ii. 119 When she is dry suckt of her eager young.
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 470 London felt it most tragicall: for then he both seysed their liberties, and sucked themselues dry.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. x. 23 My Sea shall suck them dry . View more context for this quotation
1647 H. More Philos. Poems 266 Abhorred dugs by devils sucken dry.
a1719 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic 195 in Wks. (1721) I. 24 Some [bees]..Taste ev'ry bud, and suck each blossom dry.
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 207/1 After one had sucked the bones quite dry,..I have seen another take them up,..and do the same.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. v. 44 A crew of plunderers, who would suck me dry by driblets.
14. To produce as by suction. rare.
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1849 T. Woolner My Lady in Death in My Beautiful Lady xvi The heavy sinking at her heart Sucked hollows in her cheek.
III. To perform a sucking action, and related uses.
15.
a. intransitive. Of the young of a mammal: To perform the action described in sense 1; to draw milk from the teat; to feed from the breast or udder.
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the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (intransitive)] > suck
suckc1000
suck1340
sucka1616
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > suck > at breast
suckc1000
to suck one's fillc1475
suckle1688
nurse1696
nipple1989
c1000 [implied in: Ælfric Homilies I. 246 Ægðer ge men ge ða sucendan cild. (at sucking adj. 1a)].
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 5 He mihte ridan..uppon þa lutthle fole þat ȝet hit wes sukinde.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6585 Vther wes to lutel þa ȝet he moste suken.
c1290 Beket 1460 in S. Eng. Leg. 148 Ne womman þat was with childe, Ne þe children þat soukinde weren.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6022 Com a pore womman..And bare a chylde..Þe pappe yn þe mouþe as hyt had soke.
c1440 Sir Gowther 113 He sak so sore thei [sc. the nurses] lost here lyfes.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 679 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 275 Þai..fand þe child at þe pape, lyand rycht as he sukit had.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. vi. 74 A grete sow fereit of grysis thretty heid, Liggin on the ground..About hir pappis sowkin.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxv Let them souke as longe as the dammes wyll suffre them.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. J.ii All thynges the whiche dothe sucke is nutrytyue.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 289 Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man When Hectors grand-sire suckt . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 75 To see my Ewes graze, & my Lambes sucke . View more context for this quotation
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 167 There we saw a great many Women, and little Children, most of them Sucking.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 44 The wet-nurse having presented it the breast, it took it with avidity, but it could suck but little, in consequence of its weak state.
1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 10 I suck, but no milk will come from the dug.
1858 F. Churchill Dis. Children (ed. 2) 30 It is desirable that a child should not be weaned before nine months, nor suck after twelve.
b. at, †of, †on the breast or the mother.
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c1330 Arth. & Merl. 8466 Þou souke of hir tat.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 116 He..badde hem souke for synne saufly at his breste [1393 C. xiii. 55 Souken of hus brest].
c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Prol. 6 Children..on the brest soukynge.
a1400 Octouian 555 A man chyld..Sok of her as of a woman That wher hys dame.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hunting e iv A fawne sowkyng on his dam.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 253 Of my dame sen I sowked Had I neuer sich a nyght.
1549 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. (Surtees 1908) 204 Two mares..and two feles sucking upon theym.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 53 The zoung babe of hir breist sucand.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A5 A thousand yong ones..Sucking vpon her poisnous dugs.
1645 True Relation Late Witches of Essex 19 The said Anne offered to give unto her daughter Sarah Cooper an Impe in the likenes of a gray Kite, to suck on the said Sarah.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 94 Such as are nourished with Milk, presently find their way to the Paps, and suck at them.
c. of flies drawing blood, etc., as in sense 1b.
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the world > animals > by eating habits > [verb (intransitive)] > suck
suckc1000
suck1340
sucka1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 88 Where the Bee sucks, there suck I. View more context for this quotation
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 130 How there he plunder'd snug And suck'd all o'er, like an industrious Bug.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 326 These flesh-flies of the land; Who fasten without mercy on the fair, And suck, and leave a craving maggot there.
1870 F. S. Wilson Austral. Songs & Poems 99 Honey-birds loitered to suck at the wattle.
†d. transferred and figurative. Obsolete.
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxixv Suche other, as daily flatered hym for their peculier profites (as he had many in deede, that daily sucked at his elbowe).
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) Pref. sig. Aiv Suche two footed Moules and Todes whom..nature hath ordayned to craule within the earth, and suck upon the muck.
a1626 F. Bacon Hist. Reigne Henry VIII in Certaine Misc. Wks. (1629) 165 The Crowne, which had sucked too hard, and now being full,..was like to Draw lesse.
e. To practise fellatio (or cunnilingus). coarse slang.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > practise oral sex [verb (intransitive)]
gamahuche1880
to go downc1895
Frenchc1928
gobble1928
suck1928
plate1961
to sit on a person's face1968
1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy Western N. Amer. (1935) 78 My cock is only 10 ins long so if any one would like to suck meet me here 9 pm.
1960 [see sense 1f].
1975 E. Hannon Doors 123 White chicks dig suckin, that's a fact. That's cause suckin's sophisticated.
1977 M. T. Bloom 13th Man (1978) viii. 148 The pimp said: ‘She wouldn't suck so she couldn't make a living. I had to send her back.’
f. To be contemptible or disgusting. slang. Cf. suck n.1 12.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > [verb (intransitive)]
to eat shit1942
blow1960
suck1971
bite1975
1971 It 2 June 3/2 Polaroid sucks! For some time the Polaroid Corporation has been supplying the South African government with large photo systems..to use for photographing blacks for the passbooks..every black must carry.
1976 G. V. Higgins Judgem. Deke Hunter vi. 59 I had a lousy summer... I thought it sucked, and I bet next summer'll suck too.
1978 M. Gordon Final Payments xi. 193 All the hotels have the same pictures. The last one, the food sucked.
16.
a. to give suck (occasionally †to give to suck): to give milk from the breast or udder, to suckle. Const. simple dative or to. Now archaic.Suck, originally an infinitive (cf. German zu saugen geben, Dutch te zuigen geven), is now felt as a noun; cf. suck n.1 1a.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > supply with food [verb (intransitive)] > give suck
to give suckc1330
suckle1408
nurse1645
breastfeed1905
c1330 Arth & Merl. 2694 Late..þi wiif it loke Of hir milk & ȝiue it souke.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 60 Þe blonderes byeþ þe dyeules noriches þet his children yeueþ zouke.
c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xx. 65 Eke the to sowken of my brestes yafe I.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 237 To rokken and to yeue the child to sowke.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 5 v Am y not he that ye bare and gaf me souke of your brestes?
1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. sig. *3 Mothers ought to giue their owne Children sucke.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxiv. 257 If a mother hath a child which she cannot give suck unto for some valuable consideration.
1786 J. Hunter Treat. Venereal Dis. vii. i. 388 She gave suck to this second child.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 504 A poor woman, who gave suck to a child about a year old.
1858 F. Churchill Dis. Children (ed. 2) 30 The mother may give the child suck during the night or day only.
b. without personal object. Now archaic.
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxiii. 29 Blessid be..wombis that han not gendrid, and the teetis whiche han not ȝouun souke.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxiv. 19 To them that are with chylde, and to them that geve sucke [ Wyclif noryschinge].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 54 I haue giuen Sucke, and know How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me. View more context for this quotation
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 131 Those [does] that have young ones never are housed, but give suck without.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 88 Seeing it would be for many reasons inconvenient for Birds to give Suck.
17. to suck at: (a) to take a draught of; to inhale: (b) to take a pull at (a pipe, drinking vessel).
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)]
drinkc1000
bite?c1225
touchc1384
supc1400
neck?1518
exhaust1555
lug1577
pipe?1578
to suck at1584
slup1598
reswill1614
imbibe1621
tug1698
absorb1821
tipple1824
inhaust1848
down1869
the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > suck air from
to suck at1584
draw1634
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxxi. 226 Marueile it is to see howe the Welshmen will lye sucking at this drinke [sc. Metheglin].
1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. F2 Snakes euer sucking at thy breath.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 124 Drawing out the air with the mouth by sucking at the orifice c.
1855 R. Browning Grammarian's Funeral 96 Back to his studies..He..Sucked at the flagon.
1872 E. Yates Castaway I. i. ix. 245 He sat quietly sucking away at his long pipe.
18. Of inanimate objects: To draw by suction.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (intransitive)] > pull > by suction
suckc1220
c1220 Bestiary 568 Ðer ðe water sukeð [MS. sinkeð], sipes ge sinkeð. [Cf. suk in l. 578.]
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 21 Weede & the water, so soeketh & sucks: that goodnes from eyther, it vtterly plucks.
1873 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1871–3 1 53 If the stamps are left..standing in the pulp, between blows, the material settles around them and they ‘suck’ when the lift commences.
19. Of a pump: To draw air instead of water, as a result of the exhaustion of the water or a defective valve.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > of pump: operate [verb (intransitive)] > draw air
suck1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 9 The Pumpe sucks, is when the water being out, it drawes vp nothing but froth and winde.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Pompe The pump sucks, or is dry.
1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. I. 61 It [sc. the pump] sucked, that is no more water remained within reach.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 170 Of course she leaked..but still in fine weather the pumps would ‘suck’ in ten minutes at four-hour intervals.
figurative.1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 129 Even Byron's pump sucks sometimes, and gives an unpleasant dry wheeze.1876 R. W. Emerson Resources in Lett. & Social Aims 123 This pump [sc. our globe] never sucks; these screws are never loose.in extended use.1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal ii. 27 The Bowl sucks; Empty is the Word.
†IV. To suckle.
20. transitive. To give suck to, suckle. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > suckle
feedc950
milkOE
nourisha1382
suckle1408
alact1512
elacta1521
nursea1530
suck1607
uberate1623
breastfeed1869
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 671 So is this beast enabled by nature to beare twice in the yeare, and yet to sucke her young ones two monthes together.
1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 14 An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat. Vnder her belly she hath a bagge, wherein shee lodgeth, carrieth, and sucketh [1624 suckleth] her young.
1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies ii. 29 He had the Happiness to taste the Milk of the same Breast that suck'd our Saviour.
†V. In transitive senses of soak v.
21.
a. To cause to sink in, instil.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > infuse
sheda1325
bedew1340
distil1393
informa1398
transfusec1425
pourc1451
infudea1500
infuse1526
tan1530
colour1536
suck1549
imbrue1565
dewc1572
inspire1576
steep1603
infect1605
imbreathe1609
impregn1652
transfund1670
influence1691
bleed1866
render1885
taste1904
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. v. f. xvi Not bryngynge the sentence with the, that fauoure or malyce or dyspleasure or any other affeccion hath secretlye sowked into thee, but of the thing selfe in dede knowen.
b. to suck one's face: to drink. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)]
drinkc1000
to wet (one's) whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beardc1386
bumc1390
to wet (erron. whet) one's whistlec1405
tipple1648
to suck one's face1699
to moisten or wet one's clay1708
to water one's clay1751
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) We'll go and Suck our Faces,..let's go to Drink... He loves to Suck his Face, he delights in Drinking.

Phrasal verbs

Specialized uses with adverbs.
PV1. transitive. With various adverbs: To draw by suction in some direction.
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1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxiv. 80 That bludy Bouchour ever deit of thrist, Soukand the soules furth of the Sanctis of God.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. ii. 17 Your faire shew shall suck away their Soules, Leauing them but the shales and huskes of men. View more context for this quotation
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 3 Two contrary Eddies.., which making Vessels turn round for some time, suck them down to the bottom without remedy.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 103 The fixt and rooted earth, Tormented into billows,..with..hideous whirl Sucks down its prey.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 27 One shoe suddenly sucked off by the boggy clay.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere ii. 7 A head would pop up to suck some insect down.
1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 26 The monstrous wild a-hungered to resume Its ancient sway, suck back the world into its womb.
PV2. to suck (a)round
intransitive. To go about behaving sycophantically. Occasionally elliptical. Cf. to suck up to at Phrasal verbs 2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)]
fain?c1225
fawnc1325
to make placebo1340
fagea1382
curryc1400
to curry favela1420
to claw (a person's) toea1500
to curry favour?1518
to be at the school of placebo1554
to play (with) placebo1583
insinuatea1593
wriggle1601
lick1602
sycophantize1605
gnathonize1619
pickthank1621
supparasitate1623
ingratiate1647
slaver1730
toad-eat1766
slaum1787
to eat (any one's) toads1788
toad1802
bootlick1846
toady1861
to suck in1899
smoodge1906
smarm1911
arse-lick1928
bum-suck1930
to suck round1931
ass-lick1937
brown-nose1939
suck-hole1961
weasel1980
1931 Princeton Alumni Weekly 22 May 798/1 If ‘drag’ or ‘hot dope’ is necessary one usually ‘sucks around’ for it.
1934 G. Ade Let. 27 June (1973) 186 As for the Landis party on July 10th I have had no invitation but maybe I could suck around and get one.
1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 169 Thus a boy is said to suck round, if he tries to ingratiate himself.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xi. 209 The tycoon who spends the first part of his life sucking and crushing, and the last part giving away dimes.
1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iii. xiv. 273 Logically, she should go to the city editor. She might have done it, too, if the son-of-a-bitch hadn't handed her that coach-and-team crap earlier today. Now it would look as if she was sucking around him because of it.
 to suck in
1. transitive. To draw into the mouth by suction; to inhale (air, etc.); occasionally to draw in (one's breath), etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > inhalation > inhale [verb (transitive)]
to suck inc1220
drawa1300
inbreathea1382
to draw ina1398
to take in1495
inhaust1547
fetch1552
fet1556
imbreathe1574
to breathe in1576
attract1582
suck?1614
inspirate1615
imbibe1621
inspire1666
redistend1684
inhale1725
embreathe1867
indraw1883
c1220 Bestiary 514 Ðis cete ðanne hise chaueles lukeð, ðise fisses alle in sukeð.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) 205 Whan thei schulle eten or drynken, thei taken thorghe a Pipe..and sowken it in.
c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) 461 Sokyn in diuers þyngis, or drynkyn yn, imbibo.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 341 There they suck in the fresh Air.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 85 He sucks in Smoak, like a Virginia-Planter.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. iii. 166 I have breathed this air for a matter of half a century. I sucked it in when it tasted of primroses.
1885 E. Greey Bakin's Captive of Love (1904) iv. 28 Sucking in his breath as he bowed respectfully.
2. To imbibe (qualities, etc.) with one's mother's milk, with a draught.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > [verb (transitive)] > assimilate ideas
drinka1400
imbibe1555
to eat up1573
devour1581
assimilatea1631
to suck ina1640
absorb1840
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > receive or imbibe
receivec1384
conceivea1450
catch1533
suck1586
to suck ina1640
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll/2 I suck'd not in this patience with my milke.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. v. 17 The notions you first sucked in with your Milk.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 167 The wretch that once..suck'd in dizzy madness with his draught.
1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 201 That fatal diversity which these different races had sucked in with their mother's milk.
3. gen. To draw or take in (literal and figurative); to absorb.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > draw in
to draw ina1398
to suck in1597
indraw1883
1597 Donne Lett. Several Pers., Storme 62 Pumping hath tir'd our men, and what's the gaine? Seas into seas throwne, we suck in againe.
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i. 332 Those deeds breath honor, that do suck in gaine. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 11 There is no Lady..More spungy to suck in the sence of feare. View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 71 These infirmities possessed me in thy Countrey, for there I suckt them in . View more context for this quotation
1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 49 As..whirligigs, twirl'd round by skilful swain, Suck the thread in, then yield it out again.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 64 Sometimes electric bodies suck in the electric fire, and sometimes they throw it out.
4. To take in by means of the perceptive faculties.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [verb (transitive)]
fredec888
haveeOE
yfeeleOE
feelc1175
perceivec1330
comprehendc1374
find?a1425
perceiver1495
to take up1607
sensatea1652
percept1652
to suck ina1661
sense1661
appreciate1787
absorb1840
sensize1861
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westm. 243 He [sc. Jonson] would sit silent in learned company, and suck in (besides wine) their several humors into his observation.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 17 Aug. (1974) VIII. 388 I have sucked in so much of the sad story of Queen Elizabeth,..that I was ready to weep for her.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. viii. 116 This Persian Idolatrie, which the Israelites had suckt in.
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 10 With desire Her ears suck'd in her speech.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 240 They could not shake off the Prejudices they had sucked in.
1780 F. Burney Lett. 27 Apr. The portion you allowed me of your..Journal, I sucked in with much pleasure and avidity.
5. To draw in, as into a whirlpool or vortex.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > draw in > as a vortex
suck?1523
to suck in1616
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale ix. 273 Which..bothe sokes and bringes men in, Wheare none, at last, shall either save or winn.
1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xxxvii. 486 The waters began to suck him in.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 294 Sinking to the chin, Smit with his mien, the Mud nymphs suck'd him in.
1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 73 The tide retreating more and more Had suck'd, and suck'd him in.
1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (1850) II. 168 He had seen the water rush through the opening at the rate of ten miles an hour, sucking in several flat boats.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 171 The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes.
6. dialect and slang. To take in, cheat, deceive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]
aschrenchc885
blendc888
swikec950
belirtOE
beswike971
blencha1000
blenka1000
belieOE
becatchc1175
trokec1175
beguile?c1225
biwrench?c1225
guile?c1225
trechec1230
unordainc1300
blink1303
deceivec1320
feintc1330
trechetc1330
misusea1382
blind1382
forgo1382
beglose1393
troil1393
turnc1405
lirt?a1425
abuse?a1439
ludify1447
amuse1480
wilec1480
trump1487
delude?a1505
sile1508
betrumpa1522
blear1530
aveugle1543
mislippen1552
pot1560
disglose1565
oversile1568
blaze1570
blirre1570
bleck1573
overtake1581
fail1590
bafflea1592
blanch1592
geck?a1600
hallucinate1604
hoodwink1610
intrigue1612
guggle1617
nigglea1625
nose-wipe1628
cog1629
cheat1637
flam1637
nurse1639
jilt1660
top1663
chaldese1664
bilk1672
bejuggle1680
nuzzlec1680
snub1694
bite1709
nebus1712
fugle1719
to take in1740
have?1780
quirk1791
rum1812
rattlesnake1818
chicane1835
to suck in1842
mogue1854
blinker1865
to have on1867
mag1869
sleight1876
bumfuzzle1878
swop1890
wool1890
spruce1917
jive1928
shit1934
smokescreen1950
dick1964
1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xiii. 135 I a'n't bound to drive nobody in the middle of the night,..so don't you try to suck me in there.
c1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ in W. Jerdan Yankee Humour (1853) 113 The British got pretty nicely sucked in, when our Dutch grandaddies went to smoking on the Battery, and concealed it beneath a cloud of tobacco fume.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 2/3 You've tried to run a ship on the cheap and been sucked in.
7. intransitive. To curry favour with. Scottish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)]
fain?c1225
fawnc1325
to make placebo1340
fagea1382
curryc1400
to curry favela1420
to claw (a person's) toea1500
to curry favour?1518
to be at the school of placebo1554
to play (with) placebo1583
insinuatea1593
wriggle1601
lick1602
sycophantize1605
gnathonize1619
pickthank1621
supparasitate1623
ingratiate1647
slaver1730
toad-eat1766
slaum1787
to eat (any one's) toads1788
toad1802
bootlick1846
toady1861
to suck in1899
smoodge1906
smarm1911
arse-lick1928
bum-suck1930
to suck round1931
ass-lick1937
brown-nose1939
suck-hole1961
weasel1980
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 239 He tells tales on the rest of the scholars, to sook-in wi' the maister.
 to suck off
transitive. To cause (someone) to experience an orgasm by fellatio or cunnilingus. coarse slang. Cf. sense 1f above.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > practise oral sex on or with [verb (transitive)] > cause to experience orgasm by
to suck off1928
1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy Western N. Amer. (1935) 79 When will you meet me to suck me off?
1941 G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. 1176 The object of suck can be either the organ or the person; but the object of suck off is usually the person, who is mentioned within the idiom, e.g. ‘to suck him off’.
1959 W. S. Burroughs Naked Lunch 76 Equilibrists suck each other off deftly.
1969 J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie (1970) vii. 50 He listened superciliously..and, spreading his legs, asked me to ‘suck him off’ to make him less uptight.
1971 Guardian 27 Sept. 14/5 One American GI is forcing a Vietnamese woman to suck him off.
1976 J. Crosby Snake (1977) xxxv. 222 Elf has had a busy night... Sucking me off till all hours.
 to suck out
1. transitive. To draw out or extract by or as by suction. Also in figurative context.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by or as by suction
to suck out1398
soak1577
exorb1657
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iv. vii. 90 Flyes and wormes that sytt on flesshe and sucke out the blode.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 16 Sowe hit not, hit sowkith out the swete Of euery lond.
c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 321 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 217 Þa..bad þe edris suk owt faste al þe venyme.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxiv. 8 As for the dregges therof, all ye vngodly of the earth shal drynke them, & sucke them out.
1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. i. ii. f. 2 It [sc. a medicine] sucketh oute superfluous moysture in dropsyes.
1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxiii. 34 Thou shalt euen drinke it and sucke it out . View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Queene of Corinth ii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbb/1 They look like potch'd Eggs with the soules suckt out, Empty and full of wind.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1678 (1955) IV. 141 The <flannel> sucking out the moisture.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Sucking The tip [of the tongue] is again employed to the sucking out more milk.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. iv. 78 Every fresh Jew sticking on him like a fresh horseleech, sucking his and our life out.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind xiii. 363 They pretend to cure the sick by sucking out stones through their skin.
†2. To extract (information or profit). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain from a source or derive
takec1175
drawa1300
to take out of ——1483
suck1535
to suck out1546
derive1561
extract1596
to take up1610
1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 14 His Majestes pleasure is, that sucking out as moche as ye may to what other condicions they will descende, you shall [etc.].
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies To Rdr. Every one may sucke out some profit for himselfe.
†3. To drain. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > empty by drinking
quaff1595
to suck out1688
drain1697
unload1846
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Uuu3/1 He suckt out (or suckt up) the Bottle.
 to suck up
1. transitive. To draw up into the mouth by suction. Also, †to drain the contents of.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > suck
to suck up1774
a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 1811 Ȝef a drope of blod..Falle vp-on þe corporas, Sowke hyt vp a-non-ryȝt.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xxxix. 33 His yong ones also sucke vp blood.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 188 The Toade bloweth them, and sucketh them [sc. bees] vp at their owne doores.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 261 Is it Physicall To walke vnbraced, and sucke vp the humours Of the danke Morning? View more context for this quotation
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. ix. §2. 236 Sucking up the breath.
1688 [see to suck out 3 at Phrasal verbs 2].
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 264 The elephant dips the end of its trunk into the water, and sucks up just as much as fills that great fleshy tube.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 207 The Sun-birds..subsist on the nectar of flowers, which they suck up.
2. To draw up as by suction or the creation of a vacuum; to absorb (liquid); to draw up (moisture) by heat; also, to draw up moisture from.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > absorb [verb (transitive)]
to suck up1530
haust1542
soakc1555
to take up1597
absorb1604
imbibe1651
inhale1836
sop1888
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > draw up by suction, vacuum, or heat
to suck up1600
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 742/2 As the yerthe, or a sponge sucketh up water.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 89 The windes..haue suckt vp, from the Sea, Contagious fogges. View more context for this quotation
1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. B4v The smoakie vapours sucked vp by the Sunne.
1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 106 By this the Sunne had suckt vp the vaste deepe.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 343 He rubs it [sc. the sponge] over..the Tympan, to Suck up the Water.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 102 To prevent the formation of a vacuum in the rising bucket, or what is called by the miller ‘sucking up the tail-water’.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 49 The burning sun on the fells had sucked him up; but the damp heat of the woody crag sucked him up still more.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 71 The thread constantly sucks up the liquid.
†3. To absorb by a mental process; to drink in.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > fix the attention, concentrate [verb (transitive)] > absorb
swallow1513
to swallow up1594
to suck up1602
immerge1611
immerse1790
to breathe in1816
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. vi. sig. K4v May his stile..haue gentle presence, and the Sceans suckt vp By calme attention of choyce audience.
c1610–15 Life St. Wenefride in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 89 The holie virgin..sucked vp and exhaled her maisters..praises of her celestiall Loues excellencie.
4. To swallow up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium > swallow up
swallowc1175
to swallow up1526
devour1555
engulf1555
abyss1596
involve1605
flapdragona1616
to suck upa1616
ingurgitatea1620
absorbeate1623
exorbeate1623
entomba1631
gulf1807
begulf1809
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 22 Roaring Waters, With Sands that will not beare your Enemies Boates, But sucke them vp to' th' Top-mast. View more context for this quotation
1650 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) II. 101 This good service they haue don to his Majestie after shokinge up the sweete and substance of his Catholicke subjects of Monster.
1795 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 52 Britain will suck up that commerce which formerly flowed to Amsterdam.
1869 J. R. Lowell Dara v Wise Dara's province, year by year, Like a great sponge, sucked wealth and plenty up.
5. intransitive. to suck up to, to curry favour with; to toady to. (Also without to.) slang (originally Schoolboy slang). Cf. sucker-up n. at sucker n. Compounds 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour with [verb (transitive)]
flatter1340
to claw the back ofc1394
to pick a thank (also thanks)c1422
clawc1425
to claw by the sleeve1509
to claw by the backa1542
fawna1568
to make or pay (one's) court to1590
adulate1612
hug1622
sycophant1637
to make up to1701
to whip it in with1702
cultivate1706
incense1708
to wheedle in with1726
to grandfather up1747
slaver1794
toad1802
to play up to ——1809
nut1819
toady1827
bootlick1846
to suck up to1860
lickspittle1886
jolly1890
bum-suck1918
arse-lick1919
to cosy up to1937
brown-nose1948
ass-kiss1951
ass-lick1962
love-bomb1976
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Suck up, ‘to suck up to a person’, to insinuate oneself into his good graces.
1876 ‘A. Thomas’ Blotted Out xvi I can't suck up to snobs because they happen to be in power and to have patronage.
1899 E. Phillpotts Human Boy 203 Fowle sucked up to him..and buttered him at all times.
1905 H. A. Vachell Hill vi ‘Afterwards’, John continued, ‘I tried to suck-up. I asked you to come and have some food.’
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xl. 719 We hear how you suck up to the Yankees..to get money out of them.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. iv. 261 I imagine she's been used to bossing things rather in naval circles, with flag-lieutenants trotting round and young officers on-the-make sucking up to her.
1957 R. K. Merton Social Theory (rev. ed.) ii.viii. 270 Data in The American Soldier on what was variously called brown-nosing, bucking for promotion, and sucking up.
1963 D. Ogilvy Confessions Advertising Man (1964) i. 15 I despise toadies who suck up to their bosses; they are generally the same people who bully their subordinates.
1966 A. Sachs Jail Diary xxi. 187 I suck up to the police... I don't actually crawl to them but I am so eager to win their approval.
1979 J. Cooper Class (1980) vi. 131 Harry Stow-Crat also has to suck up to neighbouring farmers in case he should want to hunt over their land.

Draft additions January 2009

slang (chiefly U.S.). to suck face: to kiss passionately.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [verb (intransitive)] > smooch
mug1890
to get to first base1892
smooch1932
to suck face1979
pash1990
1979 Newsweek 12 Mar. 103/1 This snotty tyke who says ‘suck face’ instead of ‘kiss’.
1997 J-17 June 83/1 Can you promise that you weren't out sucking face with that lad she calls a delinquent?
2003 J. R. Lennon Mailman ii. ix. 443 Teenagers suck face leaning against their cars, the shirtless boys wearing giant shorts and sneakers.

Draft additions December 2006

transitive. colloquial (chiefly North American). to suck it up: to work up one's courage or resolve in order to persevere through discomfort or adversity.
ΚΠ
1967 News (Frederick, Maryland) 3 Mar. 10/2 ‘I'm sick,’ he said, ‘I gotta go out.’ Then another voice said, ‘Naw stick in here Glenn. Suck it up.’
1992 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 14 Aug. d8 Whatever happened to sucking it up and playing with pain?
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 86 With steely resolve, a pro, in the face of adversity, will suck it up and redouble his efforts to make the restaurant what he wanted and planned it to be all along.

Draft additions June 2019

coarse slang (originally U.S.). to suck cock (also cocks).
a. To practise fellatio.Often used to denote a man's homosexuality (chiefly derogatory and offensive); cf. cocksucker n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > practise oral sex [verb (intransitive)] > fellatio
fellate1884
to suck cock1902
blow1933
nosh1961
to slob (on) someone's knob1989
to slob the knob1989
1902 Testimony in People ex rel. J. Churchill against F. V. Greene (Supreme Court State N.Y.) (1904) I. 495 She pointed to a woman who sat in the rear of the room and she said, ‘That woman..has got medals all over her undershirt and underdrawers for sucking cocks.’
1982 D. Wilson Street Theater 47 That would imply I'm a ‘homosexualist’, which is..ludicrous. Yale men don't suck cock.
2004 D. King Pornographer Diaries iv. 43 Three dozen letters from guys saying: ‘You like to suck cock? I like to have my cock sucked. We should get together.’
b. To be horrible, dreadful, awful.
ΚΠ
1988 D. Handler Boss v. 57 It's the team that sucks cock. New kids aren't ready. That Garvey can't throw the ball.
1998 Re: Offer's Open Coward in rec.music.makers.guitar (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Nov. Your band sucks cock, I'd rather jam with blues guys who can play.
2013 @MrHeelPhilip 25 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) The wifi sucks cock! Big time.

Draft additions June 2019

coarse slang (originally U.S.). to suck dick (also dicks).
a. To practise fellatio.Often used to denote a man's homosexuality (chiefly derogatory and offensive); cf. dick-sucker n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > oral sex > practise oral sex on or with [verb (transitive)] > fellatio
irrumate1887
gam1910
gobble1928
blow1933
fellate1948
cocksuck1954
to suck dicka1956
nosh1961
to polish someone's knob1963
a1956 ‘Speckled Red’ Dirty Dozens (song lyrics) in P. Oliver Screening Blues (1968) vi. 240 Your brother sucks dick.
1996 R. Colker Hybrid vii. 204 He was routinely called a ‘fag’ at work, and told that he ‘sucks dicks’.
2018 @Ladiearth 4 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I hate sucking dick, but I'm good at it.
b. To be horrible, dreadful, awful. Frequently with modifier (typically relating to size) as intensifier, as to suck big dick, to suck donkey dick, etc.
ΚΠ
1968 C. F. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript, Brown Univ.) Lexicon 206 Sucks gorilla dicks, an obnoxious person.
1992 Just to have Fun in alt.personals.misc (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Dec. My spelling sucks donkey dick so excuse it if you would.
2012 @JerryRiva5 2 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Working all day today sucked dick, but seeing my girlfriend..made it all better.
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