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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hag \hag\ ha^g, n. oe. hagge, hegge, witch, hag, as.
haegtesse; akin to ohg. hagazussa, g. hexe, d. heks, dan.
hex, sw. haumxa. the first part of the word is prob. the
same as e. haw, hedge, and the orig. meaning was perh., wood
woman, wild woman. root12.
1. a witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard. obs.
"silenus that old hag." --golding.
1913 webster
2. an ugly old woman. --dryden.
1913 webster
3. a fury; a she-monster. --crashaw.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
myxine glutinosa hyperotreta hagfish borer slime eel sucker
sleepmarken hag moth phobetron pithecium hag's tooth
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sucker \suck"er\ su^k"~er, 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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
9. a hard drinker; a soaker. slang
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10. a greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived.
slang, u.s.
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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.
pjc
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
pjc
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.
1913 webster
see also:
catostomidae catostomus commersoni catostomus teres catostomus nigricans erimyzon sucetta buffalo fish
red horse black horse suckerel menticirrus undulatus bagre
carp sucker cherry sucker carp cherry sucker fish
sucking fish sucking sucker rod pump sucker tube
sucker foot spatangoid
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sucker \suck"er\, v. t. imp. p. p. suckered; p. pr. vb.
n. suckering.
1. to strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of
suckers; as, to sucker maize.
1913 webster
2. to cheat or deceive a gullible person; to make a sucker
of someone.
pjc
see also:
suckered suckering
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sucker \suck"er\, v. i.
to form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sucker
n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of syn:
chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, 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, 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
see also:
chump fool gull mark patsy fall guy
soft touch mug lollipop all-day sucker
- [6] : 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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