| 单词 | to suck round |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto suck (a)round to suck (a)round intransitive. To go about behaving sycophantically. Occasionally elliptical. Cf. to suck up to at Phrasal verbs 2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)] fain?c1225 fawnc1325 to make placebo1340 fagea1382 curryc1400 to curry favela1420 to claw (a person's) toea1500 to curry favour?1518 to be at the school of placebo1554 to play (with) placebo1583 insinuatea1593 wriggle1601 lick1602 sycophantize1605 gnathonize1619 pickthank1621 supparasitate1623 ingratiate1647 slaver1730 toad-eat1766 slaum1787 to eat (any one's) toads1788 toad1802 bootlick1846 toady1861 to suck in1899 smoodge1906 smarm1911 arse-lick1928 bum-suck1930 to suck round1931 ass-lick1937 brown-nose1939 suck-hole1961 weasel1980 1931 Princeton Alumni Weekly 22 May 798/1 If ‘drag’ or ‘hot dope’ is necessary one usually ‘sucks around’ for it. 1934 G. Ade Let. 27 June (1973) 186 As for the Landis party on July 10th I have had no invitation but maybe I could suck around and get one. 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 169 Thus a boy is said to suck round, if he tries to ingratiate himself. 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xi. 209 The tycoon who spends the first part of his life sucking and crushing, and the last part giving away dimes. 1979 A. Hailey Overload (new ed.) iii. xiv. 273 Logically, she should go to the city editor. She might have done it, too, if the son-of-a-bitch hadn't handed her that coach-and-team crap earlier today. Now it would look as if she was sucking around him because of it. < as lemmas |
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