Suck

Definition: Suck

Suck

Noun

1. The act of sucking.

Verb

1. Draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth; "suck the poison from the place where the snake bit"; "suck on a straw"; "the baby sucked on the mother's breast".

2. Draw something in by or as if by a vacuum; "Mud was sucking at her feet".

3. Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.; "The current sucked him in".

4. Take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words".

5. Give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "suck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Suck \Suck\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Sucked; Sucking.]. (references)

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Suck

Ejection

Empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Food

Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle.

Inquiry

Require an answer; pick the brains of, suck the brains of; feel the pulse.

Insolence

Out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand.

Reception

Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).

Redundancy

Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste).

Servility

Sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass, suck up.

Taking

Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

Teaching

Preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs; preach to the converted.

Crosswords: Suck

Swedish (sigh).

Suck me beautiful (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz)

She can suck a golf ball through twenty feet of garden hose (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs)

Do you suck dicks (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

Just keep your mind and suck in the experience (The Beach; writing credit: John Hodge)

How bad do you suck! (Chasing Amy; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Suck it in suck it in suck it in (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

That's why they suck dick with mo' passion than average (Livin' It Up; performing artist: Ja Rule)

Think it ain't so, SUCK A DICK (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris)

Suck me (Touch It; performing artist: Monifah)

You better suck the head on them there crawfish (Shake Ya Ass; performing artist: Mystikal)

Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off. (references; author: unknown)

The Joy Suck Club (1994)

Girls Who Love to Suck (1987)

Fifties Suck, The (performing artist: Pinkard & Bowden)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Suck Up the Purple Buttermilk (reference)

• Vampires: Emotional Predators Who Want to Suck the Life Out of You (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Nofx: They Suck Live at Al's Bar Too (reference)

• Suck It and See (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Suck on the Pastels (reference)

• Suck on This (reference)

• You Suck Crap [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Suck was a queer word

He rubbed the butt to a pulp and put it out the window, letting the breeze suck it from his fingers

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Suck on mints, or tart candies. (references)

They will not suck your blood -- and most do not have rabies. (references)

Suck on hard candy or popsicles or chew gum. These can help make more saliva. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "suck": don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs ♦ give suck ♦ make suck ♦ suck advantage out of ♦ suck at ♦ suck down ♦ suck dry ♦ suck face ♦ suck in ♦ suck like a leech ♦ suck off ♦ suck one's thumb ♦ suck out ♦ suck smb.'s brain ♦ suck the blood of ♦ suck the brains of ♦ suck up ♦ suck up to ♦ suck up to smb. ♦ teach granny to suck eggs ♦ teach one's grandmother to suck eggs ♦ To suck in ♦ To suck out ♦ To suck up. Additional references.

Beginning with "suck": suck-blow, suck-holing, suck-in, Suck-it-and-see, suck-slurp, suck-suck.

Ending with "suck": cut-and-suck, dick-suck, suck-suck, wind-suck.

Albanian

thithje (absorption, exhaustion, induction, pull, suction), thith (absorb, draw, draw down, drink, imbibe, immerse, inhale, nipple, pull at, snuff, soak, soak up, sop, suck in, take up), thëthij (drink in, engross, exhaust, inhale). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مص (absorption, lick, licking, pick, siphon, suck out, sucking up, suckle, suction), ‏إستوعب (absorb, assimilate, compass, digest, get around, imbibe, ingest, realize, stomach, swallow, take in), ‏رضع الأصبع, ‏رضع (foster, nurse, suckle), ‏رضاعة (suckle, suckling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суча, сукане, смуча (pull at), сладкиши (pastry), шум от смукане, кърмене (breast feeding, feeding, nursing), всмукване (absorption, draw, indraft, indraught, influx, intake, suction, whiff), всмуквам (snort, suck in, suck up), малка глътка (tass, toothful), абсорбирам (absorb, soak, suck in), бонбони (candy), бозая, поглъщам (absorb, adsorb, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, imbibe, ingulf, ingurgitate, pouch, prepossess, soak, soak up, suck down, suck in, suck up, swallow, swamp, take down, take in, take over, whelm), изсмуквам (evacuate, exhaust, suck out). (various references)

Chinese 

� (sip), 啜 (drink, sip, taste), 吮 (Sucked, sucking), �"� (incite), 嘬 (eat ravenously, to gnaw). (various references)

Czech

sát, sání (soak, suction), využít (avail oneself of, embrace, exploit, fob, grasp, tap, utilize), vysát (blot, suck out), líznutí (lick), lízat (lap up, lick), kojení (breast feeding, feed), cucat, cucání. (various references)

Danish

suge. (various references)

Dutch

zuigen (aspiration, suction), opzuigen (ingestion), lurken. (various references)

Esperanto

suĉi. (various references)

Faeroese

súgva. (various references)

Farsi 

مکیدن (Intake), مک زنی (Suction), مک زدن , مک (Intake), شیره کسی راکشیدن , شیردوشی . (various references)

Finnish

imeä (absorb, sip). (various references)

French

téter (suck in, suckle), sucer (suck out, suckle). (various references)

Frisian

sûgje. (various references)

German

saugen (absorb, draw up, Hoover, to suck, vacuum), lutschen. (various references)

Greek 

θηλάζω (nurse, suckle), ρουφώ (slurp, soak up). (various references)

Hebrew 

מציצ�" (puff, sucking out, suction), י� יק�" (absorption, sucking, suction, young twig), למצות (drain out, exhaust, express, extract, squeeze), למצוץ (drain out), לי� וק (absorb, breastfeed, suckle). (various references)

Hungarian

szopás (sucking), szívás (sucking, suction). (various references)

Indonesian

teguk (draught, gulp, sup, swallow), isap, cucut (kiss, shark). (various references)

Irish

súigh (absorb), diúl. (various references)

Italian

succhiare (inhale, suck in), poppare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

おしどり夫婦 (a careless person, a couple of lovebirds, breasts, frightening, happily married couple, huge, oden, pacifier, penis, shocked speechless, teething ring, uncle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おっぱい (breasts). (various references)

Korean 

� 십시�". (various references)

Malay

isap ... mengisap. (various references)

Manx

soo stiagh (absorb, suck in), soo (absorption, blot, blot as paper, exhaust, exhaustion, extract, extraction; goodness of food; berry, extraction; goodness; berry, imbibe, jam, preserve, sap, sip; blotting, soak, soak up, soaking, sucking, suction, tipple, tippling), jiole (draw, nourish, nurse, sucking), bainney kee (breast milk). (various references)

Maya

haap (to suck). (various references)

Norwegian

suge. (various references)

Papiamen

chupa. (various references)

Pig Latin

ucksay.(various references)

Portuguese

chupar (aspirate, blot, soak up), sugar (absorb, milk), mamar (nurse). (various references)

Romanian

supt (emaciated, gaunt, hollow-cheeked, sucking, thin, wasted), sugere (suction), suge (absorb, bib, booze, guzzle, sop, suckle), inhalare (inhalation, inhaling), fraier (Cully, rook, sucker), bomboanã (comfit, confectionery, drop, Goody, sweet, sweetmeat, sweety), aspirare (aspiration, inspiration, intake), aspiraţie (aspiration, hankering, sniff, suction), aspira (aspirate, aspire, breathe, endeavor, endeavour, exhaust, inspire, sniff), absorbire (absorbing, absorption, assimilation, engrossment, suction), absorbi (absorb, aspirate, captivate, engage, engross, fascinate, imbibe, inhale, soak, sponge). (various references)

Russian 

сосать (sucked, sucking, suckle). (various references)

Scottish

sùg, deoghail. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sisati (nurse, suckle), sisanje (suction). (various references)

Spanish

chupar (blow cock, milk), mamar (blow cock). (various references)

Sranan

soygi, popo (empty, void), bobi. (various references)

Swedish

suga (sip), sug (draw), dia (nurse, suckle). (various references)

Thai

แย่มาก (คำสแลง), การ�"ู�", �"ู�" (drag on). (various references)

Turkish

su yerine hava çekmek, soğurmak, sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate smb. with, arm, assure, carry, cater, cater for, come in, derive, enlist, ensure, extract, fend for, find, fix, fix up, furnish, get out of, implement, keep, lay in, lay on, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, supply, yield), sızdırmak (chisel, drag out, drip, effuse, exude, leak, leak out, ooze, percolate, take in, transpire, wheedle smth. out of smb., work), içim, özümlemek (assimilate, internalize, suck in), anafor (Eddy, gulf, swirl, vortex, whirlpool), anne sütü, elde etmek (achieve, acquire, attain, carry, clear, come off, conquer, gain, get, have, make, obtain, procure, purchase, secure, take, win), emiş, emilen şey, emme (absorption, admission, adsorption, aspiration, soak, sorption, sucking, suction, vacuum), emme sesi çıkarmak, çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw), girdap (Eddy, gulf, purl, swirl, twist, vortex, whirlpool), yudum (drachm, dram, draught, gulp, nip, sip, sup, swallow), içine çekmek (engulf, imbibe, inhale, inspire, sop up, suck in, suck up, swallow, swallow up), kıç yalayıcı (arse licker, bumsucker, sucker), nefes çekmek (inhale, pull, take a whiff), yağcı (apple polisher, buttery, crawler, deadhead, flatterer, greaser, greasy, gushing, gushy, lickspittle, loader, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, reptilian, silky, sleek, slime, soapy, sucker, toady), emmek (absorb, adsorb, drink in, occlude, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, suck in, suck up, syphon off). (various references)

Turkmen 

sormak (absorb), sokjamak, emmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

усмоктувати (absorb, adsorb, imbibe, sink in, soak up, suck up), усмоктування (absorption, imbibition, suction), смоктати (nurse, pull), смоктання, материнське молоко. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự mút (suction), sự hút ngụm, sự bú. (various references)

Welsh

sugno (absorb, imbibe), sugn (sap, suction), sipian (sip, sup). (various references)

Yucatec

ts'u'uts'ik (kiss, smoke), ts'u'uts' (kiss, smoke). (various references)

sugatis, sugent, sugentem, sugentes, sugeret, suges, suget, sugetis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "suck": sucked, sucker, suckered, suckering, suckers, suckfish, suckfishes, sucking, suckle, suckled, suckler, sucklers, suckles, suckless, suckling, sucklings, sucks. (additional references)

Words ending with "suck": tussuck, waesuck. (additional references)

Words containing "suck": bloodsucker, bloodsuckers, bloodsucking, cocksuckers, goatsucker, goatsuckers, honeysuckle, honeysuckles, sapsucker, sapsuckers, seersucker, seersuckers, thumbsucker, thumbsuckers, tussucks, waesucks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Suck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Auck, Cucc, Cuck, Escc, psuc, quck, quk, scc, scek, scu, scucca, scuk, scuz, Seck, Secka, seuck, Sewcz, Sewrckn, shc, sicki, sicko, sluck, smck, smuck, soci, socko, spuck, spucky, squack, subc, suc, suca, succ, suce, sucj, sucky, sucy, suek, suic, suk, suka, sukc, Suke, suki, surc, sux, Szuca, Uccc, uck, Ucko, ukccc, usc, Usci, Usmc, zuck. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cusk.

-2 letters: us.

+1 letter: bucks, cukes, cusks, ducks, gucks, hucks, lucks, mucks, pucks, rucks, sculk, shuck, snuck, stuck, sucks, tucks, yucks.

+2 letters: amucks, buckos, caulks, chucks, chunks, clucks, clunks, crucks, plucks, quacks, quicks, ruckus, sculks, shmuck, shucks, struck, sucked, sucker, suckle, trucks.

+3 letters: backups, buckers, buckets, buckish, buckles, buckoes, buckras, bucksaw, chabuks, chukars, chukkas, cockups, cuckoos, duckers, duckies, huckles, kickups, lockups, luckies, mockups, muckers, muckles, pickups, puckers, puckish, ruckles, sackbut, sackful, sawbuck, schmuck, sculked, sculker, shmucks, shucked, shucker, sickout, stackup, stickum, stickup, suckers, sucking, suckled, suckler, suckles, sunback, sundeck, tuckers, tuckets, tussock, tussuck, umiacks, uncakes, uncocks, uncorks, undocks, unlocks, unpacks, unpicks, unstack, unstick, unstuck, untacks, untucks, upticks, waesuck.