1730. Broadside Song, 'Gee ho, Dobbin' [Farmer, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), ii. 204J. I worked at her pump till the sucker grew dry, And then I left pumping a good Reason why.
See Suck and Sucking.
Suck-fyst, subs. (old).—A parasite (Cotgrave, s.v. Hume-vessie).
Sucking, adj. (old colloquial).—Young, unexperienced, callow: cf. sucker = a greenhorn, and sucking dove = a dupe or simpleton (Grose and Bee). Cf. sucking-Nelson (=a midshipmite), POET-SUCKER, etc.
1680. Dryden, Spanish Friar, iii. 2. This is no Father Dominie, no huge overgrown abbey-lubber; this is but a diminutive sucking friar.
1668. Dryden, All for Love. Preface. My enemies are but sucking criticks, who would fain be nibbling ere there teeth are come.
1849. Brönte, Shirley, xiv. The very curates . . . she . . . looked upon as SUCKING SAINTS.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, xxv. Mr. Wagg . . . said, 'Rather a shy place for a sucking county member, ay, Pynsent?' Ibid. (1855), Newcomes,v. I suppose you're a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing, because you was put at the end of the table, and nobody took notice of you.
Suckster (and Suckstress), subs. (venery).—A practitioner of irrumation; a cunnilingist (q.v.).
Suction, subs. (Winchester).—Sweetmeats: cf. (prov.) Sucker and Sucket.
Suction. See Suck.
Sudden Death, subs. phr. (common).—See quot.
b. 1842. Maginn, Bob Burke's Duel. . . . Which is it to be—two out of three, as at Newmarket, or the first toss to decide? Sudden death, said I, and there will soon be an end of it.
2. (University).—A crumpet or Sally Lunn.
3. (colonial).—See Spatch-cock.
Suds. In the suds, phr. (old).—Troubled; perplexed; angry (Grose).
1617. Letter [Nares]. The lord Coke is left in the suds, but sure it is Gods doing, according to the old saying, Perdere quos vult Jupiter prius dementat.
1619. Fletcher, Wild Goose Chase, ii. 3. Will you forsake me now and leave me i' the suds?
1622. Good Newes and Bad Newes. Now land is sold, and money gone in goods, He calls out, Andrew, I am in the suddes.
1706. Ward, Wooden World, 7. How fond soever . . . of his dear Duck's Company, he makes no tiresome stay with her . . . so taking . . . Farewell, he leaves her in the sudds.
1730. Swift, Death and Daphne. Away the frighted spectre scuds, And leaves my lady in the suds.
1737. Fielding, Tumble-down Dick, or Phaeton IN THE SUDS. [Title.]
1774. Bridges, Burlesque Homer, 459. Whene'er he wanted to deceive you, And helpless in the suds to leave you.
SUETTY-ISAAC, subs. phr. (prison).—Suet pudding: also Soapy-Isaac.
Suffer, verb. (colloquial).—In mock pity—'Do you suffer much?'
Sufferer, subs. (common).—1. A tailor.
2. (common).—A loser.
Sugar, subs. (common).—1. Money: generic: see Rhino. Also (rhyming) sugar-and-honey.
1862. Comhill Mag., Nov. 648. We have just touched for a rattling stake of sugar at Brum.
