suck

英 [sʌk] 美 [sʌk]
  • vt. 吸吮;吸取
  • vi. 吸吮;糟糕;巴结
  • n. 吮吸

中文词源


suck 吮吸,吸食,吸吮,抽吸,吸取

来自古英语 sucian,吮吸,来自 Proto-Germanic*sukana,吮吸,来自 PIE*sug,吸,来自 PIE*seue, 汁液,液体,词源同 soak,soup.引申诸相关词义。

英文词源


suck
suck: [OE] Suck is part of a widespread Indo- European family of ‘suck’-words which go back to the base *seug-, *seuk-. This no doubt originated in imitation of the sound of sucking from the mother’s breast. Amongst its relatives are Latin sūgere (whose past participle sūctus gave English suction [17]), Welsh sugno, German saugen, Dutch zuigen, Swedish suga, and Danish suge. Suckle [15] was probably a back-formation from suckling [13], itself a derivative of suck.

Also from suck comes sucker [14], which originally denoted a ‘baby still at the breast’; its use for a ‘gullible person’ (that is, someone as naive as an unweaned child) originated in American English in the early 19th century.

=> suction, suckle
suck (v.)
Old English sucan "to suck," from a Germanic root of imitative origin (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German sugan, Old Norse suga, Danish suge, Swedish suga, Middle Dutch sughen, Dutch zuigen, German saugen "to suck"), possibly from the same source as Latin sugere "to suck," succus "juice, sap;" Old Irish sugim, Welsh sugno "to suck;" see sup (v.2). As a noun from c. 1300.

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.
The old, old saying that the runt pig always sucks the hind teat is not so far wrong, as it quite approximates the condition that exists. ["The Chester White Journal," April 1921]

双语例句


1. They suck you in to their seedy world.
他们把你卷入他们肮脏糜烂的圈子里。

来自柯林斯例句

2. to suck the juice from an orange
吸橙子的汁

来自《权威词典》

3. Then the pumps suck them up into the boats.
然后唧筒把他们吸到船上.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. It's good to suck in such clean fresh air for a change.
换个环境,吸点清新空气,真是好极了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. Bees suck honey from flowers.
蜜蜂从花中吸吮蜜汁.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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