英和和英

形容詞

suckerish (comparative more suckerish, superlative most suckerish)

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of the sucker of an animal.
   • 1995, Marion Kay Douglas, Bending at the Bow

     […] plans, plans, plans, spreading outward from my hard skull, but in the soft and suckerish manner of an octopus.

   • 2012, C H Garbutt, Black Pool

     It took several minutes and a few more of its suckerish tentacles to complete the search, but at last the Kraken found a closed clamshell. It passed it to me.

2. (informal) Gullible; easily taken advantage of.
   • 1934, Bangkok Review (volume 1, issue 3, page 18)

     He even forgets about the great sum he loses, but perpetually irritates himself with his own suckerish imagination.

   • 1999, The New Yorker (volume 75, issues 1-10, page 94)

     Not since the early, suckerish days of a bourgeoisie that caught the brunt of Dada and Surrealism have congenitally ungrateful artists been presented with so large and luscious a hand to bite.