Значение

значений: 20
  1. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

    Sauger, Saugerin

    сосу́нsosún, сосу́ньяsosúnʹja, сосуно́кsosunók

  2. 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.

    Wurzelschössling, Wurzelbrut, Wurzelspross

  3. (шире)A parasite; a sponger.

    Blutsauger, Saftsauger

  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.

  5. A thing that works by sucking something.

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

  7. A pipe through which anything is drawn.

    Saugrohr, Absaugrohr

  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.

  9. (Британия, разговорное)A suction cup.

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

    сосу́нsosún

  11. 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.

  12. (США, разговорное)A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.

Примеры

предложений: 39
  1. I'm a sucker for happy endings.

    Я питаю слабость к счастливым концовкам.

  2. Do I look like a sucker?

  3. Nobody wants to be a sucker.

  4. I'm a sucker for half-price sales.

  5. Don't be a sucker.

Переводы

языков: 9
Українська
По значениям 1
organ:
Русский
По значениям 3
someone or something that sucks:
one who is easily fooled:
organ:
Deutsch
По значениям 6
someone or something that sucks:
a stem growing up from the roots of a plant:
a parasite:
a pipe through which anything is drawn:
a hard drinker; a soaker:
one who is easily fooled:

Происхождение

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) + -er. Com

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Suuger, West Frisian sûker (“sucker”), Dutch zuiger (“sucker”), German Sauger (“dummy; vacuum”).

Possibly from German Sache (“thing”).

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