suck

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål suge (“to suck”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak. === Pronunciation === (US, Southern England) enPR: sŭk, IPA(key): /sʌk/ (Northern England, Ireland) enPR: so͝ok, IPA(key): /sʊk/ Rhymes: -ʌk Hyphenation: suck === Noun === suck (countable and uncountable, plural sucks) An instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction. (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast. An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction. (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction. A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser. A sycophant, especially a child. (slang, dated) A short drink, especially a dram of spirits. (vulgar) An act of fellatio. (chiefly US, Canada, slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity. ==== Synonyms ==== (crybaby): sook (crybaby): sooky baby ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === suck (third-person singular simple present sucks, present participle sucking, simple past and past participle sucked) (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). [from 9th c.] (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. [from 11th c.] (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a parent etc.) to draw in milk. [from 11th c.] (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something. [from 14th c.] Synonym: (technical) aspirate (transitive, archaic) To inhale (air), to draw (breath). (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth. [from 14th c.] (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact. [from 17th c.] (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio. [from 20th c.] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perform oral sex 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure the way he arched his back and spread his legs when he wanted me to suck him. (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.] 1988, "Vixen" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 32, page 70) […] the animation on the main character is beautiful, and the fox, although a little on the weeny side, moves superbly. The rest of the graphics suck — they might have looked worthy in 1984, but now they're quite the opposite. ==== Usage notes ==== The colloquial sense denoting something to be objectionable or of poor quality is now very common among younger people, hence it has mostly lost its vulgar connotations. However, some older speakers may still find it offensive. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== sugescent ==== Descendants ==== →⇒ Vietnamese: sục ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === cusk == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Swedish sukker, from the root of the verb sucka (“to let out a sigh”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɵk/ Hyphenation: suck === Noun === suck c sigh; a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration (colloquial, usually in negated expressions) chance ==== Declension ==== === Interjection === suck sigh === References === “suck”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “suck”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “suck”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)