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sucked, ppl. a.|sʌkt|
[f. suck v. + -ed1.]
In various senses of the verb; extracted, absorbed, or depleted by suction.
sucked orange: see orange n.1 1 b.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. iii. 127 Did he leaue him there Food to the suck'd and hungry Lyonnesse? 1667Milton P.L. x. 633 Nigh burst With suckt and glutted offal. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. lxxii, Pretty!—what makes her pretty?—wi' a face like a sooket carvy! 1857W. E. Gladstone in Morley Life (1903) I. iv. viii. 561 But for Disraeli, who could not be thrown away like a sucked orange. 1881Ensor Journ. Nubia viii. 73 The sucked and marrowless bones. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 665 Some half dozen [maggots] which were filled with recently sucked blood. 1906C. Mansfield Girl & Gods xxiii, The streets seemed filled with drunkards, sucked oranges, hot chestnuts, sore noses and chilblains. 1909Oxenham Great-Heart Gillian xliii. 310 Baby Gillian..waved a sucked pink thumb at him and his men.
b. sucked stone, a honeycombed stone occurring in the tin lodes of Cornwall.
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 90 The Lode itself..is cavernous, and full of holes, thence called a Sucked Stone by the Tinners. 1814W. Phillips in Trans. Geol. Soc. II. 118. |