sucker

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• UK: /ˈsʌk.ə/
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• General-American: /ˈsʌk.ɚ/
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• rhymes with -ʌkə(ɹ)
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• homophone: succor
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• CMU ARPABET: S AH1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

139 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Southern Altai: соргыш (sorgïš) — someone or something that sucks
• Arabic: مَاصّ (māṣṣ) — someone or something that sucks
• Bulgarian: сукалче (sukalče) — someone or something that sucks
• Dutch: zuiger — someone or something that sucks
• Finnish: imijä — someone or something that sucks
• French: suceur — someone or something that sucks
• French: suceuse — someone or something that sucks
• German: Sauger — someone or something that sucks
• German: Saugerin — someone or something that sucks
• Irish: súmaire — someone or something that sucks
• Italian: aspiratore — someone or something that sucks
• Italian: succhiatore — someone or something that sucks
• Persian: مکنده (makande) — someone or something that sucks
• Portuguese: sugador — someone or something that sucks
• Portuguese: chupador — someone or something that sucks
• Romanian: sugător — someone or something that sucks
• Russian: сосу́н (sosún) — someone or something that sucks
• Russian: сосу́нья (sosúnʹja) — someone or something that sucks
• Russian: сосуно́к (sosunók) — someone or something that sucks
• Spanish: mamón — someone or something that sucks
• Swedish: sugare — someone or something that sucks
• Belarusian: прысо́сак (prysósak) — organ
• Bulgarian: прилепало (prilepalo) — organ
• Catalan: ventosa — organ
• Chinese Mandarin: 吸盤 /吸盘 (xīpán) — organ
• Dutch: zuignap — organ
• Finnish: lonkero — organ
• French: ventouse — organ
• Galician: botón — organ
• German: Sauger — organ
• Greek: μυζητήρας (myzitíras) — organ
• Greek: κοτύλη (kotýli) — organ
• Ancient Greek: κοτυληδών (kotulēdṓn) — organ
• Ido: sugilo — organ
• Irish: súiteoir — organ
• Italian: pompa — organ
• Italian: ventosa — organ
• Japanese: 吸盤 (kyūban) — organ
• Korean: 빨판 (ppalpan) — organ
• Korean: 흡반 (heupban) — organ
• Māori: pata — organ
• Polish: przyssawka — organ
• Portuguese: ventosa — organ
• Russian: присо́ска (prisóska) — organ
• Spanish: ventosa — organ
• Telugu: చూషకము (cūṣakamu) — organ
• Ukrainian: присо́ска (prysóska) — organ
• Ukrainian: присо́сок (prysósok) — organ
• Italian: polpo — animal adhering to other bodies with such organs
• Italian: sanguisuga — animal adhering to other bodies with such organs
• Italian: remora — animal adhering to other bodies with such organs
• Russian: сосу́н (sosún) — animal adhering to other bodies with such organs
• Armenian: բիճ (bič) — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Azerbaijani: bic — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Bulgarian: издънка (izdǎnka) — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Catalan: tany — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Czech: přízemní výhonek — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Czech: přízemní šlahoun — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Finnish: juuriverso — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• French: rejeton — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• French: rejet — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• German: Wurzelschössling — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• German: Wurzelbrut — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• German: Wurzelspross — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• German: Wurzeltrieb — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Greek: παραφυάδα (parafyáda) — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Irish: meathán — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Māori: hekerua — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Māori: turuki — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Tagalog: suwi — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Turkish: piç — a stem growing up from the roots of a plant
• Bulgarian: бозайник (bozajnik) — a suckling animal
• Finnish: imeväinen — a suckling animal
• Bulgarian: смукателна тръба (smukatelna trǎba) — a pipe through which anything is drawn
• Bulgarian: всмукателна тръба (vsmukatelna trǎba) — a pipe through which anything is drawn
• German: Saugrohr — a pipe through which anything is drawn
• German: Absaugrohr — a pipe through which anything is drawn
• Bulgarian: паразит (parazit) — a parasite
• German: Blutsauger — a parasite
• German: Saftsauger — a parasite
• Hungarian: parazita — a parasite
• Bulgarian: смукач (smukač) — a hard drinker; a soaker
• Finnish: sieni — a hard drinker; a soaker
• German: Säufer — a hard drinker; a soaker
• Arabic: مُغَفَّل (muḡaffal) — one who is easily fooled
• Arabic: صيدة (ṣēda) — one who is easily fooled
• Finnish: hyväuskoinen hölmö — one who is easily fooled
• French: pigeon — one who is easily fooled
• German: Volltrottel — one who is easily fooled
• German: Naivling — one who is easily fooled
• German: Depp — one who is easily fooled
• German: Blödmann — one who is easily fooled
• German: Dummkopf — one who is easily fooled
• Greek: κορόιδο (koróido) — one who is easily fooled
• Hebrew: פראייר (frayer) — one who is easily fooled
• Hebrew: פֶּתִי (péti) — one who is easily fooled
• Hungarian: balek — one who is easily fooled
• Hungarian: palimadár — one who is easily fooled
• Hungarian: madár — one who is easily fooled
• Indonesian: tolol — one who is easily fooled
• Italian: allocco — one who is easily fooled
• Italian: capocchio — one who is easily fooled
• Korean: 호구 (hogu) — one who is easily fooled
• Polish: frajer — one who is easily fooled
• Polish: naiwniak — one who is easily fooled
• Portuguese: otário — one who is easily fooled
• Romanian: fraier — one who is easily fooled
• Russian: лох (lox) — one who is easily fooled
• Russian: молокосо́с (molokosós) — one who is easily fooled
• Russian: фра́ер (frájer) — one who is easily fooled
• Russian: проста́к (prosták) — one who is easily fooled
• Russian: простофи́ля (prostofílja) — one who is easily fooled
• Serbo-Croatian: pušioničar — one who is easily fooled
• Serbo-Croatian: budala — one who is easily fooled
• Serbo-Croatian: naivac — one who is easily fooled
• Spanish: otario — one who is easily fooled
• Spanish: pringado — one who is easily fooled
• Spanish: primo — one who is easily fooled
• Welsh: gwirionyn — one who is easily fooled
• Welsh: gwirionen — one who is easily fooled
• Yiddish: יאָלד (yold) — one who is easily fooled
• Yiddish: פֿרײַער (frayer) — one who is easily fooled
• Yiddish: שטומפּ (shtump) — one who is easily fooled
• Bulgarian: подлъгвам (podlǎgvam) — to fool
• Bulgarian: подлъжа (podlǎža) — to fool
• Bulgarian: подмамвам (podmamvam) — to fool
• Bulgarian: подмамя (podmamja) — to fool
• Finnish: huijata — to fool
• French: pigeonner — to fool
• Greek: κοροϊδεύω (koroïdévo) — to fool
• Romanian: fraieri — to fool
• Russian: дури́ть (durítʹ) — to fool
• Russian: обдури́ть (obdurítʹ) — to fool
• Russian: дура́чить (duráčitʹ) — to fool
• Russian: одура́чить (oduráčitʹ) — to fool
• Spanish: burlar — to fool
• Spanish: coger de bobo — to fool
• Swedish: narra — to fool
• Swedish: lura — to fool