suck

CEFRB2

/sʌk/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To pull liquid or air into the mouth or through a tube.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.

Examples

  • Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they are old.

  • You suck dude! I have to tell you everything!

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meaning

  1. Milk drawn from the breast.

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.

  2. An instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction.

More examples

In context

  • Young puppies will naturally try to suck milk from their mother.

  • The baby sucked (milk) on her bottle.

  • […] 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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.