sucker
A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udderA person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
» I'm a sucker for happy endings.
Я питаю слабость к счастливым концовкам.
Значення
значень: 20A 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
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
(ширше)A parasite; a sponger.
Blutsauger, Saftsauger
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.
A thing that works by sucking something.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Saugrohr, Absaugrohr
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.
(Британія, розмовне)A suction cup.
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
сосу́нsosún
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.
(США, розмовне)A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
Приклади
речень: 39I'm a sucker for happy endings.
ruЯ питаю слабость к счастливым концовкам.
Do I look like a sucker?
Nobody wants to be a sucker.
I'm a sucker for half-price sales.
Don't be a sucker.
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Походження
From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) + -er. ComFrom 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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