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- [suhk-er]
- /ˈsʌk ər/
- /ˈsʌk.ər/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [suhk-er]
- /ˈsʌk ər/
Definitions of sucker word
- noun sucker a person or thing that sucks. 1
- noun sucker Informal. a person easily cheated, deceived, or imposed upon. 1
- noun sucker an infant or a young animal that is suckled, especially a suckling pig. 1
- noun sucker a part or organ of an animal adapted for sucking nourishment, or for adhering to an object as by suction. 1
- noun sucker any of several freshwater, mostly North American food fishes of the family Catostomidae, having thick lips: some are now rare. 1
- noun sucker Informal. a lollipop. 1
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Origin of sucker
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; 1835-45 for def 2; Middle English; see suck, -er1
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Parts of speech for Sucker
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sucker popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
sucker usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sucker
noun sucker
- babe in the woods — a baby or child.
- birdbrain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bough — A bough is a large branch of a tree.
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
verb sucker
- bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
- bunco — a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- cribbing — the action of one that cribs
adj sucker
- gullible — easily deceived or cheated.
adjective sucker
- naive — having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- nonresistant — not able, conditioned, or constructed to withstand the effect of something, as a disease, a specific change in temperature, or harsh treatment; susceptible to damage or ill effects.
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