Short for "cock sucker", which is the days of non-political correctness and rampant homophobia was a serious and widespread insult/put down. "You suck" having the "cock" understood.
8 I'm looking for a noun for somone who allows others to take advantage of them, similar in meaning to "sucker" or "sap" but less dated. For example, what would you call the one person who does work on a group project or the single responsible person among a bunch of freeloaders?
At least in my experience, "I'm a sucker for X" means that I am drawn to X regardless of what other characteristics X may have. The connection to sucker meaning something like loser, therefore, is that someone who is a sucker for something may get into a bad situation as a result, or at the very least enjoys X to a degree that seems injudicious and excessive. This source, which does not seem ...
What does this phrase mean? I never give a sucker an even break. Does it mean that the author of this saying is unwilling to offer somebody who he doesn't like a break/rest while he is working?
1898 Sandusky (Ohio) Star 8 Oct. I'm grinnin' at the handsome captain that got played for a fool by his wife. So play preserves that sense of manipulation, and the following phrase for a fool is what you are made into by the manipulation. You fell for it; you're a fool, a sucker, a dupe.
Harold Wentworth & Stuart Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, first edition (1960) has this entry for egg-sucker: egg-sucker n. One who seeks advancement through flattery, rather than work; a "weasel." But it may be less relevant to the emergence of "Go suck an egg" than the more literal egg-sucking tendencies of some dogs and humans.
A suction cup, also known as a sucker, is a device or object that uses the negative fluid pressure of air or water to adhere to nonporous surfaces, creating a partial vacuum.
A normal blood-sucker and the thing it feeds on is a parasite/host relationship. By definition, a parasite generally doesn't kill its host. If you wanted to specify further, you would say it is an ectoparasite, because it lives and does its feeding outside the host (as opposed to, say, a tapeworm).
According to this website: In the mid-1800s, during the Victorian era, there was a rejection of all profanity and so the common people developed a wide variety of malapropisms to avoid swearing o...
