1633. Marmion, Fine Companion, iv. 1. There's a wench has her suburb tricks about her, I warrant you.
1640. Brome, Sparagus Garden, ii. 3. Some suburbe justice that sits o' the skirts o' the city and lives by't.
1661. Middleton, Mayor of Quin. [Dodsley, Old Plays (Reed), xi. 120.] Man, who in some garden-house, Taking his lustful time, Surprizes her.
1678. Cotton, Virgil Travestie (1770), 132. Or else some dirty suburb-drab, Has help'd the Rascal to a Clap.
1682. Radcliffe, Poems, 25. A Guiney to me was no more Than Fifteen Pence to a Suburb Whore.
1822. Nares, Glossary, s.v. Suburbs. In the suburbs the citizens had their gardens and banqueting houses, where, unless they are much slandered, many ntrigues were carried on.
Succuba, subs. (venery).—A mistress;
a harlot.
1610. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. My glasses Cut . . . to multiply the figures, as I walk Naked between my succubæ.
Succubus, subs. (old).—A thieving
hanger-on; a scoundrel.
1700. Farquhar, Constant Couple, iv. 3. Here's an old succubus, madam, that has stole two silver spoons.
Suck, subs. (Old Cant).—1. 'Wine
or strong Drink' (B. E. and
Grose). Also (2) a small
draught: see quot. 1625. Hence
rum-suck = excellent tipple;
sucky = drunkish; suck-spigot
(-pint, -pot, -bottle, or -can)
= a confirmed tippler: also
sucker; suckerdom = the world
of topers; suck-casa = a public
house. As verb= to tipple, to
soak (q.v.). also to suck
one's face = 'to delight in drinking'
(B. E.); suction = booze
(q.v.): hence to live on suction
= to drink hard; power of
suction = capacity for boozing.
1585. Nomenclator. Ebriosus . . . A dronkard: a suckspigget: a great drinker.
1611. Cotgrave, Dict., s.v. Humeur, a sucke-pinte or swill-pot, a notable drunkard.
c. 1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Suck. We'll go and Suck our Faces, but if they toute us, we'll take rattle and brush, c. let's go to Drink and be merry, but if we be Smelt, by the People of the House, we must Scower off.
c. 1709. Ward, Terræfilius, ii. 9. Out upon you, for a Damn'd Derby-Ale Sot . . . such a Swill-Belly Suck-bottle.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick, xxiii. Wery good power o' suction, Sammy.
1862. N. Y. Tribune [Bartlett]. In resisting the tax on whiskey, it has been shown that one distiller in Ohio, who makes 8000 gallons a day, would pay into the treasury $375,600 a year, if suckerdom continued thirsty.
2. (old).—A breast pocket (Grose).
1625. Massinger, New Way, etc., i. 1. 'No house? nor no tobacco?' 'Not a suck, sir; nor the remainder of a single can.'
3. (University).—A toady: cf. sucker. Whence to suck up to = to insinuate into one's good graces: cf. bumsucker.
1900. Kipling, Stalky & Co., 43. That little swine Manders . . . [is] always suckin' up to King.
4. (common).—A cheat; a trick: also suck-in. To suck in = to take in (q.v.); and sucker (q.v.) = a greenhorn, a dupe: see Sucking.
d. 1758. Ramsay, General Mistake. This sucker thinks nane wise But him than can to immense riches rise.
1842. Clavers, Forest Life, i. 109. 'I ain't bound to drive nobody in the middle of the night,' said the driver; 'so you don't try to suck me in there.'
1856. Dow, Sermons, ii. 316. I can't help saying it confidentially, and before man alone, that life is all moonshine,—a monstrous humbug,—a grand suck in.
