suckとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) enPR: sŭk, IPA^(key): /sʌk/
• 韻: -ʌk
• (some Northern English accents) enPR: so͝ok, IPA^(key): /sʊk/
• 韻: -ʊk
• ハイフネーション: suck

名詞

suck (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sucks)

1. An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
   • 2001, D. Martin Doney, Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty, page 261

     Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quick suck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”

2. (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
   • 2010, Barbara Tieken, Bull Vaulter: Alena of the Isle of Green (page 202)

     The infant took suck in an instant, pulling strongly.

3. (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
   • 1999, Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms., v 9, n 3, p 82–6:

     “Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such a suck,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”

   • 2008, Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, in Today's Parent, v 25, n 5, p 64:

     I used to think she was such a suck! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.

4. A sycophant, especially a child.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press, p 23:

     You are McGlade's suck.

5. (slang, dated) A short drink, especially a dram of spirits.
6. (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
   • 2012, Alex Carreras, Cruising with Destiny, page 12

     Nate exhaled a long, slow breath. What the hell was he thinking? He couldn't cruise the steam room looking for married men looking for a quick suck. He needed to shoot his load, but was he really that desperate?

同意語

• (crybaby): sook
• (crybaby): sooky baby

派生語

• fair suck of the sauce bottle

動詞

suck (三人称単数 現在形 sucks, 現在分詞 sucking, 過去形および過去分詞形 sucked)

1. (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). [from 9th c.]
2. (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. [from 11th c.]
3. (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. [from 11th c.]
4. (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.

5. (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth. [from 14th c.]
6. (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact. [from 17th c.]
7. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio. [from 20th c.]
8. (chiefly Canada, 米国用法, intransitive, slang) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency. [from 20th c.]
   • 1970 January 8, Hunter S. Thompson, “[letter to Steve Geller]”, in Fear and Loathing in America‎^[1], New York: Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 251:

     it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks

同意語

• To draw
• To attract
• (7, 8 above) To blow
• See also Thesaurus:give head

反意語

• (to bring something into the mouth by inhaling): to blow
• (to be poor at): to rock, to rule

派生語

アナグラム

• cusk