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单词 suck-egg
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suck-eggn.

Etymology: < suck- comb. form + egg n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsuck-egg.
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a. An animal that is reputed to suck eggs, e.g. a weasel, cuckoo; figurative an avaricious person.
b. A young fellow; slang. ‘a silly person’ (Barrère & Leland).
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1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C3v Where's this suck-egge, wheres Iack a boy?
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 40 This Beard cannot get Children, you lank suckeggs, Unlesse such Weezels come from Court to help us.
c1640 Capt. Underwit v. i, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 395 Con. Is there not a weesill crept into your Chamber, lady?..A Mounsier sucklegge [sic]. Sis. Do you take my Chamber for a henns neast?
1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice ii. 10 A Scholler Madam? a Schollers Egg—emptyed by old suck-Eggs, of all that Nature gave me.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1839) 1st Ser. v. 12 I guess, said he, if General Campbell knew what sort of a man that are magistrate was, he'd disband him pretty quick, he's a regular suck-egg.
1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. 109 Suck, Suck-egg, the cuckoo; also applied to a stupid fellow.
c. attributive. That sucks eggs. Also U.S. dialect (chiefly South and Midland), used to designate a dog regarded as the type of viciousness or worthlessness (also transferred).
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1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 282 The suck-egge Weasell.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 934 Of the first kinde is the Flesh-fly, Horse-fly, Oxe-fly, the Suck-egge-fly.
1892 Dial. Notes 1 232 He is as mean as a suck-egg dog.
1927 P. Green Unto Such Glory in One-act Plays for Stage & Study 3rd Ser. 104 He's a dirty low-down suck-egg dog.
1931 Virginia Q. Rev. 7 102 Hayes got up and slunk off like a suck-egg dog caught in the hen-house.
1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs ix. 107 But I will be a suck-egg son of a bitch if I can't tie my good arm behind me, stand on my bad leg only, and still whup me the living daylights out of any skinny little Alabama bast—.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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