sucker
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
sucker
n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
[syn: {chump}, {fool}, {gull}, {mark}, {patsy}, {fall guy},
{sucker}, {soft touch}, {mug}]
2: a shoot arising from a plant's roots
3: a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
4: flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with
toothless jaws
5: hard candy on a stick [syn: {lollipop}, {sucker}, {all-day
sucker}]
6: an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering
to objects by suction
7: mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped
mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hag \Hag\ (h[a^]g), n. [OE. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, AS.
h[ae]gtesse; akin to OHG. hagazussa, G. hexe, D. heks, Dan.
hex, Sw. h[aum]xa. The first part of the word is prob. the
same as E. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood
woman, wild woman. [root]12.]
1. A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. [Obs.]
"[Silenus] that old hag." --Golding.
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2. An ugly old woman. --Dryden.
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3. A fury; a she-monster. --Crashaw.
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4. (Zool.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch ({Myxine
glutinosa}), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial
mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill
openings. It is the type of the order {Hyperotreta}.
Called also {hagfish}, {borer}, {slime eel}, {sucker}, and
{sleepmarken}.
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5. (Zool.) The hagdon or shearwater.
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6. An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a
man's hair. --Blount.
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{Hag moth} (Zool.), a moth ({Phobetron pithecium}), the larva
of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit
trees.
{Hag's tooth} (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of
matting or pointing.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sucker \Suck"er\ (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by
which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere
to other bodies.
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2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl.
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3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a
pump basket. --Boyle.
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4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
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5. 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; -- used by children as a
plaything.
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6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of
a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment
from the body of the plant.
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7. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of North American
fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family
{Catostomidae}; so called because the lips are
protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of
little value as food. The most common species of the
Eastern United States are the northern sucker
({Catostomus Commersoni}), the white sucker
({Catostomus teres}), the hog sucker ({Catostomus
nigricans}), and the chub, or sweet sucker ({Erimyzon
sucetta}). Some of the large Western species are
called {buffalo fish}, {red horse}, {black horse}, and
{suckerel}.
(b) The remora.
(c) The lumpfish.
(d) The hagfish, or myxine.
(e) A California food fish ({Menticirrus undulatus})
closely allied to the kingfish
(a); -- called also {bagre}.
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8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
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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. --Fuller.
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9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]
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10. A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived.
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11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]
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12. A person strongly attracted to something; -- usually used
with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes.
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11. Any thing or person; -- usually implying annoyance or
dislike; as, I went to change the blade and cut my finger
on the sucker. [Slang]
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{Carp sucker}, {Cherry sucker}, etc. See under {Carp},
{Cherry}, etc.
{Sucker fish}. See {Sucking fish}, under {Sucking}.
{Sucker rod}, a pump rod. See under {Pump}.
{Sucker tube} (Zool.), one of the external ambulacral tubes
of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and
used for locomotion. Called also {sucker foot}. See
{Spatangoid}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "sucker":
babe, barnacle, beat, bilk, bine, bloodsucker, boob, bough, branch,
branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, butt, chump, cinch, client,
cozen, credulous person, cull, customer, deadwood, defraud, diddle,
do, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fair game, fall guy, fish,
flagellum, fool, fork, freeloader, frond, goat, gobe-mouches,
greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, gyp, hanger-on,
innocent, leadpipe cinch, leech, limb, lounge lizard, mark, monkey,
mug, offshoot, overreach, patron, patsy, pigeon, plaything,
prize sap, prospect, pushover, ramage, ramification, regular,
regular customer, runner, sap, saphead, sapling, sarment,
schlemiel, scion, seedling, set, shoot, sitting duck, slip,
soft touch, spear, spiv, sponge, sponger, spray, sprig, sprit,
sprout, stolon, stooge, switch, take, tendril, thallus, toy,
trusting soul, twig, victim
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