English Dictionary

sucker

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsʌk.ə/

名詞

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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.

日本語の意味

乳飲み仔：母乳を飲んで育つ哺乳類の幼い個体 / 乳を吸う人または動物：文字通りに乳房や乳房から吸い取る者

At feeding time, the lamb was the fiercest sucker in the pen.

授乳の時間になると、その子羊は小屋の中で一番激しく乳を吸う子だった。

意味（1）

A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

Sir Gregory. I promise you, not a house-rabbit, sir. Sir Perfidious. No sucker on ’em all.

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.

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.

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

A thing that works by sucking something.

意味（6）

The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

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.

意味（7）

A pipe through which anything is drawn.

意味（8）

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.

意味（9）

(Britain, colloquial) A suction cup.

意味（10）

An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

意味（11）

(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.

意味（12）

(US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.

意味（13）

(slang, archaic) A hard drinker.

意味（14）

(US, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois.

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.

意味（15）

(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.

意味（16）

(US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person.

One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.

意味（17）

(informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

I'm a sucker for ghost stories.

意味（18）

(obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis.

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.

suckers （ plural ）