• SUC
n. juice, sap …1551 obs.
• SUCCADES
n. sweetmeats of candied fruit or vegetable products …1463
• SUCCADO
n. ? fruit syrup …c1530 obs.
• SUCCEDANEAL
adj. taking or serving in the place of something else; acting as a substitute …1633 obs. rare
• SUCCEDANEOUS
adj. 1. taking or serving in the place of something else; acting as a substitute (in the 17th century, said especially of medicinal applications or ingredients) …1646 obs.
adj. 2. supplementary …1665 obs. rare
• SUCCEDANEUM
n. a thing which (rarely, a person who) replaces or serves in the place of another; a substitute …1662
• SUCCEDANY
n. a thing which (rarely, a person who) replaces or serves in the place of another; a substitute …1657 obs.
• SUCCEDENT
adj. following, succeeding, subsequent …c1450 now obs. or rare
n. 1. a thing that follows another …c1440 obs.
n. 2. a result, issue …1627 obs. rare
• SUCCEED
vb. 1. to follow, to walk after …c1485 obs.
vb. 2. to fall heir to, to inherit, to come into possession of …1490 obs.
vb. 3. to happen, to come to pass, to take place …1537 obs.
vb. 4. to follow as a consequence of; to ensue, to result …1537 obs.
vb. 5. to come up or near to; to approach …1596 obs. rare
• SUCCEEDING
adj. 1. successful …1595-9 obs.
adj. 2. coming, to come, future …1676 obs.
n. 1. succession …c1460 obs.
n. 2. consequence, result …1601 obs.
• SUCCELESS
adj. juiceless …1657 obs. rare
• SUCCEND
vb. to set on fire, to kindle, to burn …1432-50 obs.
• SUCCENTOR
n. an abettor …1609 obs. rare
• SUCCENTURIATE
adj. substituted …1641 obs. rare
vb. 1. to supply what is lacking in; to supply a want; to supplement …1622 obs.
vb. 2. to fill up the number of a band of soldiers; to recruit …1623 obs. rare
vb. 3. to put instead of another; to substitute …1647 obs.
• SUCCENTURIATION
n. the supply of recruits to fill up a ‘century’ or company; generally, the supply of persons or things …1643 obs.
• SUCCERNATE
vb. to sift …1623 obs. rare
• SUCCERNATION
n. a sifting …1658 obs. rare
• SUCCESS
n. 1. that which happens in the sequel; the termination, favourable or otherwise, of affairs; the issue, upshot, result …1537 obs.
n. 2. succession as of heirs, rulers, etc. …1587 obs.
n. 3. an event …1588 obs.
vb. to happen …1567 obs. rare
• SUCCESSANEAN
adj. marked by succession or transition …1635 obs. rare
• SUCCESSANTLY
adv. in succession …1588 obs. rare
• SUCCESSARY
n. 1. a successor …1486 obs. rare
n. 2. succession …a1616 obs. rare
• SUCCESSION
n. 1. that to which a person succeeds as heir; an inheritance …1382 obs. rare
n. 2. the course, lapse, or process of time …1456 obs.
n. 3. the result, issue …1514 obs.
n. 4. posterity …1628. obs.
• SUCCESSIONS
n. (future or successive) generations …c1430 obs.
• SUCCESSIVE
adj. 1. hereditary; descending or transmitted by succession or inheritance …1432-50 obs.
adj. 2. attended or fraught with success; successful …1582 obs.
adj. 3. of persons: succeeding by inheritance …1592 obs.
• SUCCESSIVELY
adv. 1. continuously or without interruption for a certain period …1531 obs.
adv. 2. successfully, propitiously …1582 obs.
adv. 3. by succession or inheritance …1594 obs.
adv. 4. in the course of events; subsequently, eventually …1600 obs.
• SUCCESSORY
adj. succeeding by inheritance; hereditary …1610 obs.
• SUCCIDE
vb. to cut off, to shorten …1432-50 obs. rare
• SUCCIDUOUS
adj. ready to fall; tottering …1656 obs. rare
• SUCCINCT
adj. of garments: not ample or full; close-fitting, scant …1712-14 arch. or poetic usage
• SUCCINGE
vb. to engirdle …1578 obs. rare
• SUCCINGENT
adj. engirdling, embracing …1578 obs.
• SUCCISION
n. a felling or lopping down; the act of cutting off or down …a1626 obs. rare
• SUCCISIVE
adj. of hours: spare …1619 obs.
• SUCCITY
n. moisture …1646 obs. rare
• SUCCLAMATION
n. outcry, applause …1566 obs.
• SUCCOLLATE
vb. to bear on one’s shoulders …1623 rare
• SUCCOLLATION
n. a bearing on the shoulders …1623 rare
• SUCCORROSIVE
adj. tending to corrode …1541 obs. rare
• SUCCOUR
n. 1. shelter, protection; a place of shelter; a sheltered place; a refuge …a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a tributary of a river …1570-6 obs.
vb. 1. to shelter, to protect …1398 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to relieve or remedy a state of want, weakness, etc.; to relieve a diseased condition …1526 obs.
• SUCCOURABLE
adj. 1. affording succour; helpful …c1400 obs.
* adj. 2. capable of being helped or relieved …1654
• SUCCOURER
n. one who or that which aids or assists …1440 obs.
• SUCCOURESS
n. a female helper …1582 obs. rare
• SUCCOURFUL
adj. helpful …1898 rare
• SUCCOURLESS
adj. without help, helpless; without resources or means of subsistence; destitute …1412-20 rare
• SUCCRESCENT
adj. arising afterwards, succeeding …1653 obs. rare
• SUCCUBA
n. 1. a demon in female form supposed to have carnal intercourse with men in their sleep …1587
n. 2. a mistress; a harlot …1610
• SUCCUBE
n. a demon in female form supposed to have carnal intercourse with men in their sleep …1721 rare
• SUCCUBUS
n. 1. a demon in female form supposed to have carnal intercourse with men in their sleep …1387
n. 2. a demon, an evil spirit …1601
n. 3. a strumpet, a whore; a term of abuse for low woman …1622
n. 4. a thieving hanger-on; a scoundrel …1700 sl.
• SUCCUDROUS
adj. presumptuous, arrogant …c1475 Sc. obs.
• SUCCUDROUSLY
adv. presumptuously, arrogantly …c1375 Sc. obs.
• SUCCUDRY
n. presumption, arrogance …1375 Sc. obs.
• SUCCULENT
adj. of persons: well nourished …1673 obs.
n. a toady …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• SUCCULOUS
adj. succulent …1846
• SUCCUMB
vb. to abandon, to give up …1632 obs.
• SUCCUMBENCE
n. a giving way or yielding …1837 rare
• SUCCUMBENCY
n. a giving way or yielding; submission …1653 rare
• SUCCUMBENT
adj. subject, submissive to …c1645 obs. rare
• SUCCURRANCE
n. succour, aid, help, assistance …c1450 obs.
• SUCCUSS
vb. to shake up …1865
• SUCCUSSATION
n. 1. trotting of a horse …1646 obs.
n. 2. shaking up, violent shaking, jolting …1649 obs.
• SUCCUSSION
the act of shaking or condition of being shaken, esp. with violence; an instance of this …1622
• SUCCUSSIVE
adj. characterized by a shaking motion …1742 rare
• SUCH A CUP SUCH A CRUSE
phr. implies similarity between two persons related in some way …c1540 colloq.
• SUCH-AND-SUCHNESS
n. the quality or condition of being so-and-so …1885
• SUCH-A-SUCH-A-THING
n. any possible comment or statement …1930s African-American sl.
• SUCH-A-THING
n. a thingumbob; what’s-his-name …1756 obs.
• SUCH CUP SUCH COVER
phr. implies similarity between two persons related in some way …c1540 colloq.
• SUCHKIN
adj. of such a kind, this kind of …c1205 obs.
• SUCH OR SUCH
phr. this or that …c1530 obs.
• SUCHWISE
adv. in such a manner …c1375 rare
• SUCK
n. 1. sustenance …1584 obs.
n. 2. milk sucked (or to be sucked) from the breast; mother’s milk …1584 obs.
n. 3.a small draught of liquid; a drink, a sip …1625
n. 4. a breast pocket …1625 sl.
n. 5. wine or strong drink; tipple …a1700 sl. obs.
n. 6. a deception; a disappointing event or result …1856 sl.
n. 7. an obsequious person; a toady; a sycophant; a schoolchild who curries favour with teachers …1900 sl.
n. 8. a cheat; a trick …Bk1904 sl.
n. 9. a gullible person; a dupe …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 10. an unpleasant or despicable person, usually male …1974 Can. sl.
vb. 1. to draw or extract money, wealth, from a source …c1380 obs.
vb. 2. to draw money, information, or the like from a person; to rob a person or thing of its resources or support; to drain, to ‘bleed’ …1558
vb. 3. to draw or air or breath into the mouth; to inhale air, smoke, etc. …1590 obs.
vb. 4. to sponge upon …Bk1904 sl.
vb. 5. to tipple …Bk1904 sl.
vb. 6. to be unpleasant …1971 sl.
• SUCKABOB
n. a sweetmeat that is sucked in the mouth; a lollipop …1888 rare
• SUCK A HACHI!
int. a vulgar taunt; go to hell! …1954 Amer. sl.
• SUCK-AND-SWALLOW
n. the female privity …Bk1904 sl.
• SUCK A RICH TEAT
vb. to gain money lightly earned …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SUCK AROUND
vb. to behave obsequiously …1931 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SUCKASS
adj. servile …1940s African-American sl.
n. a servile person; a flunky …1940s African-American sl.
vb. (as ‘suck ass’) to curry favour …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SUCK-A-THUMB
n. a child that sucks its thumb ...a1800
• SUCK BAMBOO
vb. to smoke opium …1920s US criminals’ sl.
• SUCK-BOTTLE
n. a drunkard …c1709 cant
• SUCK-CASA
n. a public house …Bk1904 sl.
• SUCK DRY
vb. to exhaust …1593
• SUCK-EGG
n. 1. an avaricious person …1609
n. 2. a fool, a silly person, a stupid fellow …1609 Eng. dial. & sl.
n. 3. a young fellow …1609
n. 4. an animal that is reputed to suck eggs, as a weasel, cuckoo …1851
• SUCK-EGG DOG
n. 1. a term of contempt …Bk1942 Amer. Western sl.
n. 2. a sneak-thief …c1960 Amer. dial.
• SUCKER
n. 1. a young animal before it is weaned …1382
n. 2. a child at the breast …1382 obs.
n. 3. one who lives at the expense of another; one who draws profit or extorts subsistence from some source; a sponger a parasite …1500-20
n. 4. the penis …1730 sl.
n. 5. a greenhorn, a gullible person, a dupe; a mean, low fellow …1758 sl.
n. 6. a sweet consumed by sucking; a lollipop …1823 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
n. 7. an inhabitant of the state of Illinois …1833 US
n. 8. a toady …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
n. 9. a blackmailer …Bk1904 Amer. political usage
n. 10. an enthusiast; one who is particularly susceptible to the stated thing; followed by ‘for’ …1957 sl., orig. Amer.
vb. to deceive, to dupe …1939 sl., orig. & chiefly US
• SUCKER BAIT
n. a gullible person; a dupe …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SUCKERDOM
n. the world of topers …1862 sl.
• SUCKER FOR SOMETHING
n. one who cannot resist a particular thing …1960 sl.
• SUCKER SNOW
n. diluted, weak cocaine …1950s African-American sl.
• SUCKER STATE
n. the state of Illinois …Bk1904 Amer. sl.
• SUCKER WEED
n. diluted, weak marijuana …1950s African-American sl.
• SUCKET
n. a term of endearment …1605 obs.
• SUCKEY
adj. drunkish, maudlin …a1700 sl. obs. rare
• SUCK FACE
vb. to kiss or exchange kisses in a passionate manner …1980 Amer. sl.
• SUCK-FIST
n. a toady …1611 obs.
• SUCK-FYST
n. a parasite …Bk1904 sl.
• SUCK-GIVER
n. a wet-nurse …1551 obs.
• SUCK-HOLE
n. an unpleasant or despicable person, usually male …1966 Can. & Aust. sl.
vb. to behave obsequiously towards …1961 sl., orig. & chiefly Can.
• SUCK-IN
n. a deception; a disappointing event or result; cheat, a trick …1856 sl.
(verbs usually as ‘suck in’)
vb. 1. to take in, to cheat, to deceive …1842 Eng. dial. & sl.
vb. 2. to curry favour with …1899 Sc.
• SUCKING
adj. 1. tending to drain or exhaust …c1440 obs.
adj. 2. young, inexperienced, callow …1668 colloq.
• SUCKING-BOTTLE
n. 1. an infant’s feeding bottle …1632
n. 2. a breast-pump …1688 obs.
• SUCKING DOVE
n. a dupe or simpleton …Bk1904 colloq.
• SUCKING-PAPER
n. blotting-paper …a1648 obs.
• SUCKING SAND
n. quicksand …1513 obs.
• SUCKING STONE
n. pumice …1664 obs.
• SUCKLER
n. 1. a term of endearment …1500-20 Sc. obs.
n. 2. a slave woman with an abundant supply of milk whose duty it was to nurse the babies of mothers who worked …1700s African-American
n. 3. one who rears young calves or lambs …1750
• SUCKLING MEATS
n. food suitable for infants …c1610 obs.
• SUCK MY ARSE!
int. a derisive retort; also an expression of amazement …1863
• SUCK MY ASS!
int. a derisive retort; also an expression of amazement …1863
• SUCK-NURSE
n. a wet-nurse …c1640 obs.
• SUCK OFF
vb. to perform oral sex on …1928 sl.
• SUCK ONE’S FACE
vb. to delight in drinking …c1696 sl.
• SUCK OUT
vb. 1. to extract information or profit …1546 obs.
vb. 2. to drain …1687 obs.
• SUCK-PINT
n. a drunkard …1611 cant
• SUCK-PURSE
n. an extortioner …1586 obs.
• SUCKS
int. an exclamation of contempt or derision …1913 sl., esp. juvenile usage
n. sweetmeats …1858 colloq.
• SUCK SOMEONE’S ASS
vb. to curry favour with someone, esp. in a blatant or degrading manner …1864 Amer. sl.
• SUCK-SPIGOT
n. a drunkard …1585 cant
• SUCKSTER
n. a practitioner of irrumation (vigorous oral sex); a cunnilingist …Bk1904 sl.
• SUCKS TO YOU!
int. an exclamation of contempt or derision …1913 sl., esp. juvenile usage
• SUCKSTRESS
n. a practitioner of irrumation (vigorous oral sex); a cunnilingist …Bk1904 sl.
• SUCK SUDS
vb. to drink beer …1940s African-American sl.
• SUCK THE BAMBOO
vb. to smoke opium …1920s US criminals’ sl.
• SUCK THE BLOOD OF
vb. to exhaust the resources of, to drain the life out of …1583
• SUCK THE MONKEY
vb. to drink liquor surreptitiously and directly from the container, often an opened keg …1785 sl., now hist.
• SUCK THE SUGAR-STICK
vb. to receive a man …Bk1904 sl.
• SUCK-THUMB
n. a child that sucks its thumb …1890
• SUCK UP TO
vb. to curry favour with; to toady to …1860 schoolboy sl.
• SUCK-UP-TOER
n. a toady …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• SUCKY
adj. drunkish …Bk1904 sl.
• SUCTION
n. 1. the craving of appetite …1615 obs.
n. 2. imbibing strong drink, drinking …1817 sl.
n. 3. booze …1836 sl.
n. 4. sweetmeats …Bk1904 sl.
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