See sucker in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1647, Uncertain, perhaps Beaumont and Fletcher or Thomas Middleton and William Rowley?, Wit at Several Weapons, act 3, scene 1, page 44:",
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{
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "a stem growing up from the roots of a plant",
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{
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "a stem growing up from the roots of a plant",
"tags": [
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{
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a stem growing up from the roots of a plant",
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{
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"sense": "a stem growing up from the roots of a plant",
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"sense": "a stem growing up from the roots of a plant",
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"code": "el",
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"roman": "parafyáda",
"sense": "a stem growing up from the roots of a plant",
"tags": [
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{
"_dis1": "3 22 5 4 1 0 1 7 2 1 7 4 5 9 16 6 5 0",
"code": "tl",
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"sense": "a stem growing up from the roots of a plant",
"word": "suwi"
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{
"_dis1": "3 22 5 4 1 0 1 7 2 1 7 4 5 9 16 6 5 0",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "a stem growing up from the roots of a plant",
"word": "piç"
}
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"ref": "1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Prophane State:",
"text": "They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.",
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{
"ref": "1841, Elbridge Gerry [Dow, Jr.] Paige, Short Patent Sermons, revised and corrected edition, New York: Lawrence Labree, page 232:",
"text": "Of the scaly tribe, I may mention those suckers belonging to the body loaferish, that never rise to the surface of respectability, but are always groveling in the mud of corruption, whose sole study appears to be to see how much they can get without the least physical exertion; and who would rather ride to hell in a hand-cart than walk to heaven supported by the staff of industry.",
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{
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"ref": "1859, Oliver Stanley, “The Escape from the Whale”, in Hardin E. Taliaferro, editor, Fisher's River (North Carolina): Scenes and Characters, page 126:",
"text": "They had sorcerized me, and I were a done-over sucker; so I jist gin up. No sooner had we ’rove at the boat, instead o’ feastin’ me on gully-whompin oysters, they nabbed me quick as a snappin’ turtle",
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"ref": "1887, George Devol, Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, page 221:",
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"ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
"text": "Then he burst into a stream of horrible profanity. \"What's the game?\" he cried, glaring round him. \"Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what?",
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"ref": "1934, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 13, in The Thin Man, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 59:",
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"expansion": "sucker (plural suckers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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{
"word": "suckerdom"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1647, Uncertain, perhaps Beaumont and Fletcher or Thomas Middleton and William Rowley?, Wit at Several Weapons, act 3, scene 1, page 44:",
"text": "Sir Gregory. I promise you, not a house-rabbit, sir. Sir Perfidious. No sucker on ’em all.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned."
],
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[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"animal",
"animal"
],
[
"suck",
"suck"
],
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"breast",
"breast"
],
[
"udder",
"udder"
],
[
"suckling",
"suckling"
],
[
"mammal",
"mammal"
],
[
"weaned",
"weaned"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Horticulture"
],
"glosses": [
"An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree."
],
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[
"horticulture",
"horticulture"
],
[
"stem",
"stem"
],
[
"roots",
"roots"
],
[
"trunk",
"trunk"
],
[
"shrub",
"shrub"
],
[
"rootstock",
"rootstock"
],
[
"graft",
"graft"
]
],
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"(horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree."
],
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"agriculture",
"business",
"horticulture",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Prophane State:",
"text": "They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1841, Elbridge Gerry [Dow, Jr.] Paige, Short Patent Sermons, revised and corrected edition, New York: Lawrence Labree, page 232:",
"text": "Of the scaly tribe, I may mention those suckers belonging to the body loaferish, that never rise to the surface of respectability, but are always groveling in the mud of corruption, whose sole study appears to be to see how much they can get without the least physical exertion; and who would rather ride to hell in a hand-cart than walk to heaven supported by the staff of industry.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A parasite; a sponger."
],
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[
"parasite",
"parasite"
],
[
"sponger",
"sponger"
]
],
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"(by extension) A parasite; a sponger."
],
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{
"word": "scrounger"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces."
],
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"organ",
"organ"
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"round",
"round"
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[
"insect",
"insect"
],
[
"frog",
"frog"
],
[
"octopus",
"octopus"
],
[
"stick",
"stick"
],
[
"surface",
"surface"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A thing that works by sucking something."
],
"links": [
[
"thing",
"thing"
],
[
"work",
"work"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1725, Robert Boyle, The Philosophical Works, page 687:",
"text": "The last Mr. Hobbs’s principal explanations, is of the experiment wherein above 100 pound weight, being hung at the depress’d sucker, the sucker was, notwithstanding, impell’d up again, by the air, to the top of the cylinder.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket."
],
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[
"embolus",
"embolus"
],
[
"bucket",
"bucket"
],
[
"pump",
"pump"
],
[
"valve",
"valve"
],
[
"basket",
"basket"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A pipe through which anything is drawn."
],
"links": [
[
"pipe",
"pipe"
],
[
"draw",
"draw"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything."
],
"links": [
[
"leather",
"leather"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"A suction cup."
],
"links": [
[
"suction cup",
"suction cup"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British, colloquial) A suction cup."
],
"tags": [
"British",
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs."
],
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[
"octopus",
"octopus"
],
[
"remora",
"remora"
],
[
"adhere",
"adhere"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Ichthyology"
],
"glosses": [
"Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments."
],
"links": [
[
"ichthyology",
"ichthyology"
],
[
"fish",
"fish"
],
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"family",
"family"
],
[
"Catostomidae",
"Catostomidae#Translingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments."
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"ichthyology",
"natural-sciences",
"zoology"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English informal terms"
],
"glosses": [
"A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked."
],
"links": [
[
"lollipop",
"lollipop"
],
[
"candy",
"candy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A hard drinker."
],
"links": [
[
"drinker",
"drinker"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, archaic) A hard drinker."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "soaker"
},
{
"word": "suck-pint"
},
{
"word": "drunkard"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1848, Francis Alexander Durivage, George P. Burnham, “How the Wolverine Discovered the Lead Mine—A Fact”, in Stray Subjects, Arrested And Bound Over, page 79:",
"text": "There is a swarm of 'suckers,' 'hoosiers,' 'buckeyes,' 'corn-crackers,' and 'wolverines,' eternally on the qui vive, in those parts—a migratory race of bipeds—who float about from spot to spot, 'squatting,' for the nonce, wherever their fancy or interest may incline them; and a rougher set of men will rarely be met with, saving the genuine 'voyageurs,' or 'trappers'—so notorious for their hardihood.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1854 October 19, New York Tribune:",
"text": "A band of music was sent thirty miles to wake up the sleepy suckers, and draw them, by the magic of their music, to the Douglas gathering at Quincy, Illinois.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An inhabitant of Illinois."
],
"links": [
[
"Illinois",
"Illinois"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Illinoisian"
}
],
"tags": [
"US",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae."
],
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"Driftless Area",
"Driftless Area"
],
[
"Illinois",
"Illinois"
],
[
"Wisconsin",
"Wisconsin"
],
[
"Iowa",
"Iowa"
],
[
"summer",
"summer"
],
[
"winter",
"winter"
],
[
"Catostomidae",
"Catostomidae#Translingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, obsolete) A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1728, Allan Ramsay, “The General Mistake”, in The Poems of Allan Ramsay, new edition, volume 1, published 1800, page 352:",
"text": "This ſucker thinks nane wiſe. / But him that can to immenſe riches riſe:",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1859, Oliver Stanley, “The Escape from the Whale”, in Hardin E. Taliaferro, editor, Fisher's River (North Carolina): Scenes and Characters, page 126:",
"text": "They had sorcerized me, and I were a done-over sucker; so I jist gin up. No sooner had we ’rove at the boat, instead o’ feastin’ me on gully-whompin oysters, they nabbed me quick as a snappin’ turtle",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1887, George Devol, Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, page 221:",
"text": "“George, them fellows took me for a sucker. Do I look like a sucker?” ¶ “No, Bill; you look like a nice, smart counter-hopper,” I replied.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
"text": "Then he burst into a stream of horrible profanity. \"What's the game?\" he cried, glaring round him. \"Do you think I am easy and that you can play me for a sucker? Is it a frame-up, or what?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1934, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 13, in The Thin Man, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 59:",
"text": "“After twenty years you’re still a sucker for her lies? […]”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person."
],
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[
"deceived",
"deceived"
],
[
"tricked",
"tricked"
],
[
"persuaded",
"persuaded"
],
[
"naive",
"naive"
],
[
"gullible",
"gullible"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person."
],
"senseid": [
"en:dupe"
],
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{
"word": "chump"
},
{
"word": "fall guy"
},
{
"word": "fish"
},
{
"word": "fool"
},
{
"word": "gull"
},
{
"word": "mark"
},
{
"word": "mug"
},
{
"word": "patsy"
},
{
"word": "rube"
},
{
"word": "schlemiel"
},
{
"word": "soft touch"
},
{
"word": "dupe"
}
],
"tags": [
"US",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'm a sucker for ghost stories.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He must be a sucker for punishment to try to climb that mountain barefoot.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2009 September 1, Lenka, Tawgs Salter (lyrics and music), “Trouble Is a Friend”, in Lenka, performed by Lenka:",
"text": "So don't be alarmed if he takes you by the arm / I won't let him win, but I'm a sucker for his charm / Trouble is a friend, yeah, trouble is a friend of mine, oh oh!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "2015, Clutch, Sucker for the Witch\nOh, I begged and I pleaded like a fiend for a fix / I must unburden my guilty conscience / I admit it, I'm a sucker for the witch"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person irresistibly attracted by something specified."
],
"links": [
[
"irresistibly",
"irresistibly"
],
[
"attracted",
"attracted"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British slang",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1750, “Ge ho, Dobbin or the Waggoner”, in The Tulip, page 2:",
"text": "Thus to and again to our paſtime we went, / And my Cards I play'd fairly to Jenny's content; / I work'd at her Pump till my Sucker grew dry, / Then I left pumping, a good Reaſon why.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The penis."
],
"links": [
[
"penis",
"penis"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "penis"
}
],
"tags": [
"British",
"obsolete",
"slang",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsʌk.ə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsʌk.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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{
"rhymes": "-ʌkə(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "succor"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "māṣṣ",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"word": "مَاصّ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sukalče",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сукалче"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zuiger"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"word": "imijä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "suceur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "suceuse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sauger"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Saugerin"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "súmaire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aspiratore"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"word": "succhiatore"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "makande",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"word": "مکنده"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sugador"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chupador"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sugător"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sosún",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сосу́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sosúnʹja",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сосу́нья"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "of a baby",
"roman": "sosunók",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "сосуно́к"
},
{
"code": "alt",
"lang": "Southern Altai",
"roman": "sorgïš",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"word": "соргыш"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "someone or something that sucks",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sugare"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "prysósak",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прысо́сак"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prilepalo",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "прилепало"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventosa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xīpán",
"sense": "organ",
"word": "吸盤 /吸盘"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zuignap"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "organ",
"word": "lonkero"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventouse"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "botón"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sauger"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "myzitíras",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "μυζητήρας"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kotýli",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κοτύλη"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "kotulēdṓn",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κοτυληδών"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "organ",
"word": "sugilo"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "súiteoir"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pompa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventosa"
},
{
"alt": "きゅうばん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyūban",
"sense": "organ",
"word": "吸盤"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ppalpan",
"sense": "organ",
"word": "빨판"
},
{
"alt": "吸盤",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "heupban",
"sense": "organ",
"word": "흡반"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "organ",
"word": "pata"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "przyssawka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventosa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prisóska",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "присо́ска"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ventosa"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "cūṣakamu",
"sense": "organ",
"word": "చూషకము"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prysóska",
"sense": "organ",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "присо́ска"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"ref": "1892, Washington Agricultural Experiment Station, “Tests of vegetables in the experiment station garden”, in Bulletin, number 57, page 45:",
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"ref": "1961, Olympia, numbers 1-4, page 83:",
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"ref": "2017, Elizabeth Hand, Bradford Morrow, Other Aliens:",
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"ref": "2018, TW Neal, Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii:",
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"ref": "1963, Sewell Thomas, Yaquí Gold, page 170:",
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"ref": "2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 24:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "durítʹ",
"sense": "to fool",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "дури́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obdurítʹ",
"sense": "to fool",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "обдури́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "duráčitʹ",
"sense": "to fool",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "дура́чить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oduráčitʹ",
"sense": "to fool",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "одура́чить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fool",
"word": "burlar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fool",
"word": "coger de bobo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fool",
"word": "narra"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fool",
"word": "lura"
}
],
"word": "sucker"
}
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"English informal demonyms",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from German",
"English terms with homophones",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ʌkə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/ʌkə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"en:Animal body parts",
"en:Drinking",
"en:Genitalia",
"en:Mining",
"en:People",
"en:Suckers (fish)",
"en:Sweets",
"en:Toys"
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"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1975, Frank Zappa, San Ber'dino:",
"text": "She's in love with a boy from the rodeo who pulls the rope on the chute when they let those suckers go.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "1984, Runaway (film): scene in a helicopter, around 5 min 20 sec\nRAMSAY: Dave, can you land this sucker?"
},
{
"ref": "2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Marcus Stacker (Pete Stacker), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:",
"text": "The back plating looks vulnerable, light that sucker up!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "See if you can get that sucker working again."
}
],
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"thing"
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[
"object",
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"(slang, emphatic) Any thing or object."
],
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{
"ref": "2009, Stephen Hunter, The Day Before Midnight: A Novel, Bantam, →ISBN, page 232:",
"text": "You got to hit that sucker and hit him over and over. You got to hope he runs out ...",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, John Sandford, Extreme Prey, Prey, →ISBN, page 244:",
"text": "Maybe you hit that sucker and we'll get some DNA ...",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person."
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[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
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],
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"(slang, derogatory) A person."
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"tags": [
"UK"
]
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"ipa": "/ˈsʌk.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"rhymes": "-ʌkə(ɹ)"
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{
"homophone": "succor"
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"sense": "thing or object",
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{
"sense": "thing or object",
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],
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}
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