Synonyms for suck

Grammar : Verb

Spell : suhk

Phonetic Transcription : sʌk

Définition of suck

Origin : Old English sucan, from PIE root *sug-/*suk- of imitative origin (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German sugan, Old Norse suga, Middle Dutch sughen, Dutch zuigen, German saugen "to suck;" Latin sugere "to suck," succus "juice, sap;" Old Irish sugim, Welsh sugno "to suck"). Meaning "do fellatio" is first recorded 1928. Slang sense of "be contemptible" first attested 1971 (the underlying notion is of fellatio). Related: Sucked; sucking. Suck eggs is from 1906. Suck hind tit "be inferior" is American English slang first recorded 1940.

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Example sentences :

What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Foulon who told my baby it might suck grass, when these breasts were dry with want!
Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

Aw, my girl, there was a time when I said in my anger I was sorry I gave you suck.
Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

But we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit, to suck a sudden sweetness.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

And if these bodies are merely phantomic, how can they suck the blood of living people?
Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet

He will also kill and suck the blood of young mice when they are given to him.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 » by Various

If you suck the air out of a bottle, the bottle will stick to your tongue.
Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne

My little ones are prettier than they were yesterday let me suck them.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Then soak the wound in hot water and squeeze or suck it to extract the poison.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America

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