suck的词源

英文词源

suck

suck: [OE] Suck is part of a widespread Indo- European family of ‘suck’-words which go back to the base *seug-, *seuk-. This no doubt originated in imitation of the sound of sucking from the mother’s breast. Amongst its relatives are Latin sūgere (whose past participle sūctus gave English suction [17]), Welsh sugno, German saugen, Dutch zuigen, Swedish suga, and Danish suge. Suckle [15] was probably a back-formation from suckling [13], itself a derivative of suck.

Also from suck comes sucker [14], which originally denoted a ‘baby still at the breast’; its use for a ‘gullible person’ (that is, someone as naive as an unweaned child) originated in American English in the early 19th century.
=> suction, suckle

suck (v.)

Old English sucan "to suck," from a Germanic root of imitative origin (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German sugan, Old Norse suga, Danish suge, Swedish suga, Middle Dutch sughen, Dutch zuigen, German saugen "to suck"), possibly from the same source as Latin sugere "to suck," succus "juice, sap;" Old Irish sugim, Welsh sugno "to suck;" see sup (v.2). As a noun from c. 1300.

Meaning "do fellatio" is first recorded 1928. Slang sense of "be contemptible" first attested 1971 (the underlying notion is of fellatio). Related: Sucked; sucking. Suck eggs is from 1906. Suck hind tit "be inferior" is American English slang first recorded 1940.

The old, old saying that the runt pig always sucks the hind teat is not so far wrong, as it quite approximates the condition that exists. ["The Chester White Journal," April 1921]

中文词源

suck（糟糕透顶）：吸果冻比赛时观众的叫喊声

英语单词suck在口语中表示“很糟糕、很烂”。suck一词的本意是“用嘴巴吸”。该词表示“糟糕”的词义源自吸果冻比赛时观众的叫喊声。国外有一种吸果冻的趣味比赛。规则很简单，不许用手，只许用嘴巴将果冻吸光。在比赛中，观众们在一旁大喊：Hey，you suck!表面上是鼓励你快点吸，实际上是骂你太烂。因此，suck一词在口语中常被用来表示“很糟糕、很烂”。

suck：[sʌk] vt.吮吸vi.吮吸，表现极其糟糕，表现很烂

sucky：['sʌki] adj.令人讨厌的

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：suck 词源，suck 含义。

suck：吮吸，吸食，吸吮，抽吸，吸取

来自古英语 sucian,吮吸，来自 Proto-Germanic*sukana,吮吸，来自 PIE*sug,吸，来自 PIE*seue, 汁液，液体，词源同 soak,soup.引申诸相关词义。