sucker
English
/ˈsʌk.ə/, /ˈsʌk.ɚ/
noun
Definitions
- A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- (horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
- (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
- An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
- A thing that works by sucking something.
- The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
- (British) A suction cup.
- An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
- (fish) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
- (American) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
- (slang) A hard drinker.
- (American) An inhabitant of Illinois.
- (American) A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
- (American) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person.
- (informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
- (obsolete) The penis.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English souker affix from English suck.
Origin
English
suck
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Suckerville English
- allosuck English
- ball English
- ballsucker English
- blood English
- bloodsucker English
- bog English
- bogsucker English
- carp English
- carpsucker English
- chub English
- chubsucker English
- clit English
- clitsucker English
- clock English
- clocksucker English
- cock English
- cocksucker English
- cunt English
- cuntsucker English
- cybersucker English
- desucker English
- dick English
- dicksucker English
- fish English
- goat English
- goatsucker English
- hog English
- hogsucker English
- honey English
- honeysuck English
- honeysucker English
- honeysuckle English
- insuck English
- intersuck English
- lump English
- lumpsucker English
- mouth English
- mud English
- mudsucker English
- pseudosucker English
- rock English
- rocksucker English
- sand English
- sandsucker English
- sap English
- sapsucker English
- scum English
- scumsucker English
- self-suck English
- selfsucker English
- shark English
- sharksucker English
- succ English
- suck English
- suck-pint English
- suckability English
- suckable English
- suckage English
- suckboy English
- suckerdom English
- suckerfish English
- suckerhood English
- suckerish English
- suckerlike English
- suckermouth English
- suckest English
- sucketh English
- suckfest English
- suckfish English
- suckhole English
- suckitude English
- suckle English
- suckless English
- suckling English
- suckly English
- suckstone English
- sucktacular English
- sucktastic English
- suckup English
- suckworthy English
- sucky English
- sux0r English
- thumb English
- thumbsucker English
- timesuck English
- tit English
- titsucker English
- upsuck English
- whale English
- whalesucker English
- wheel English
- wheelsuck English
- wheelsucker English
- wind English
- windsucker English
- sūgere Latin
- bloedzuiger Dutch, Flemish
- zuigen Dutch, Flemish
- zuiger Dutch, Flemish
- souken Middle English
- souker Middle English
- sökka Icelandic
- suck-suck Jamaican Creole
- sap
- hog
- tit
- bog
- mud
- wind
- sand
- clit
- carp
- cock
- cunt
- goat
- scum
- suck
- rock
- ball
- lump
- chub
- fish
- dick
- succ
- sucky
- clock
- wheel
- whale
- blood
- mouth
- shark
- sux0r
- thumb
- honey
- suckup
- insuck
- suckle
- suckly
- upsuck
- suckest
- sucketh
- suckboy
- suckage
- suckfest
- suckable
- timesuck
- suckfish
- suckhole
- allosuck
- suckling
- suckless
- desucker
- sapsucker
- suckerish
- titsucker
- suckerdom
- wheelsuck
- suckitude
- self-suck
- suck-pint
- intersuck
- bogsucker
- mudsucker
- suckstone
- honeysuck
- hogsucker
- suckworthy
- goatsucker
- suckerfish
- suckerhood
- ballsucker
- dicksucker
- suckerlike
- scumsucker
- sandsucker
- sucktastic
- rocksucker
- lumpsucker
- cuntsucker
- cocksucker
- clitsucker
- carpsucker
- windsucker
- selfsucker
- chubsucker
- clocksucker
- bloodsucker
- honeysuckle
- cybersucker
- honeysucker
- wheelsucker
- whalesucker
- sucktacular
- suckermouth
- thumbsucker
- suckability
- sharksucker
- Suckerville
- pseudosucker