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Suck

verb

(past & past part. sucked; pres. part. sucking)

1.

Draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth. "Suck on a straw" , "The baby sucked on the mother's breast"

2.

Draw something in by or as if by a vacuum.

3.

Attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.. Synonym: suck in.

4.

Be inadequate or objectionable.

5.

Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation. Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on.

6.

Take in, also metaphorically. Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up. "She drew strength from the minister's words"

7.

Give suck to. Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse. "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

noun

1.

The act of sucking. Synonyms: sucking, suction.

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"Suck" Quotes from Famous Books

... medicinal point of view only; but it is important to note that he goes on to describe his personal experience of the practice of smoking in words that suggest the pleasurable nature of the experience. He says: "We ourselves during the time we were there used to suck it after their maner, as also since our returne, and have found maine [? manie] rare and wonderful experiments of the vertues thereof: of which the relation woulde require a volume by itselfe: the use of it by so manie of late, men and women of great calling ...

— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson

... tell you this warn't no play-place? How far and how deep these caves stretch only the Lord knows; for the sea is knawing them deeper and wider every year. And thar's holes and quicksands that would suck you down quicker than that whale in the Good Book swallowed Jonah. And more than that: in three hours from now these here rocks whar we are standing will be biling with high tide. This ain't no play-place! ...

— Killykinick • Mary T. Waggaman

... which am de bes' way ter ketch a hummin' bird chile?" After a negative answer she smiled. "When you sees him 'roun' de flowers den you soaks two er three in whiskey, dey bird will suck till he gits drunk an' can't fly 'way, dat's how you ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... children had been laid on dry ground. And a she-wolf, coming down from the hill to drink at the river (for the country in those days was desert and abounding in wild beasts), heard the crying of the children and ran to them. Nor did she devour them, but gave them suck; nay, so gentle was she that Faustulus, the king's shepherd, chancing to go by, saw that she licked them with her tongue. This Faustulus took the children and gave them to his wife to rear; and these, when they were of age to go by themselves, ...

— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various

... towel is like a sponge," said Daddy Blake. "The fuzzier the towel the more like a sponge it is. Each little bit of linen or cotton, is really a tiny hollow tube—a capillary tube it is called—and these tubes suck up the water on your hands as the same fuzzy capillary tubes in a piece of blotting paper suck up the ink. A towel is a sponge or a blotter. And the earth is a sort of sponge when it comes to sucking up the rain ...

— Daddy Takes Us to the Garden - The Daddy Series for Little Folks • Howard R. Garis

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