suckedadj.
/sʌkt/ a. In various senses of the verb; extracted, absorbed, or depleted by suction. sucked orange: see sucked (also † squeezed) orange at orange n.1 and adj.1 Phrases 1.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [adjective] > sucked out
suckeda1616
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > empty > emptied > by specific means
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a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 127 Did he leaue him there Food to the suck'd and hungry Lyonnesse? View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 633 Nigh burst With suckt and glutted offal. View more context for this quotation
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance III. iii. 16 Pretty!—what makes her pretty?—wi' a face like a sooket carvy!
1857 W. E. Gladstone in J. Morley Life Gladstone (1903) I. iv. viii. 561 But for Disraeli, who could not be thrown away like a sucked orange.
1881 F. S. Ensor Journey through Nubia viii. 73 The sucked and marrowless bones.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 665 Some half dozen [maggots] which were filled with recently sucked blood.
1906 C. Mansfield Girl & Gods xxiii The streets seemed filled with drunkards, sucked oranges, hot chestnuts, sore noses and chilblains.
1909 ‘J. Oxenham’ Greatheart Gillian xliii. 310 Baby Gillian..waved a sucked pink thumb at him and his men.
b. sucked stone n. a honeycombed stone occurring in the tin lodes of Cornwall.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > porous stone
sieve-stone1681
siliquastre1708
tufa1777
sucked stone1778
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 90 The Lode itself..is cavernous, and full of holes, thence called a Sucked Stone by the Tinners.
1814 W. Phillips in Trans. Geol. Soc. II. 118.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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