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suckerish en · ADJ

Etymology

From sucker + -ish.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of the sucker of an animal.
   • […] plans, plans, plans, spreading outward from my hard skull, but in the soft and suckerish manner of an octopus. 1995, Marion Kay Douglas, Bending at the Bow:
   • It took several minutes and a few more of its suckerish tentacles to complete the search, but at last the Kraken found a closed clamshell. It passed it to me. 2012, C H Garbutt, Black Pool:
2. (informal) Gullible; easily taken advantage of.
   • Not since the early, suckerish days of a bourgeoisie that caught the brunt of Dada and Surrealism have congenitally ungrateful artists been presented with so large and luscious a hand to bite. 1999, The New Yorker, volume 75, numbers 1-10, page 94:
   • He even forgets about the great sum he loses, but perpetually irritates himself with his own suckerish imagination. 1934, Bangkok Review, volume 1, number 3, page 18:

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