suck-the verb-stem used in combination: suck-fish= sucker n. 11; † suck-fist[fist n.2], a toady; † suck-giver[f.phr.give suck: see suck v. 16], a wet-nurse; suck-hole, † (a) ? (seequot. 1626); (b) U.S., a whirlpool, a pond; (c) Canad. and Austral.slang, a term of abuse (cf. suck n.1 12); hence as v. intr.slang (orig. and chiefly Canad.), to curry favour; suck-jack[partial transl. of Pg.papa-jaca, f.papar to swallow + jaca (locally) little crab], a fish (seequot.); suck-lamb[tr. G. sauglamm; cf. sock-lamb], a sucking lamb; † suck-nurse, a wet-nurse; † suck-pint= suck-bottle 2; † suck-purse, an extortioner; † suck-spigot= suck-bottle 2; also attrib.; † suck-stone, a remora or sucking-fish; suck-(a)-thumb, a child that sucks its thumb; also attrib.1753Chambers' Cycl.Suppl., *Suck-fish,..an English name for the remora, or echeneis of Artedi.1758W. Borlase Nat.Hist.Cornw. 269, I found on Careg-killas, in Mount's Bay, a particular kind of suck-fish [Lepadogaster cornubiensis].1876Goode Fishes of Bermudas 61 Leptecheneis naucrates..and Ptheirichthys lineatus..are probably the most common species of ‘Suck-fish’ found here.1611Cotgr., Humevesne[read vesse], a *sucke-fist.1551T. Wilson Logic (1580) 80 b, Wee Englishemen knowe (not onely by hearesaie, but also by good experince) that custome is the mother, and the *sucke giuer vnto all erroure.1626Middleton Mayor of Queenb. iii. iii, I will learn the villany of all trades;..if in the brewer, I will taste him throughly, and piss out his iniquity at his own *suckhole.1909Dialect Notes III. 377 Suck-hole, n., a whirlpool. Common [in East Alabama].1961Partridge Dict. SlangSuppl. 1302/2 Suck-hole, v., to toady, as in ‘He won't suck-hole to anyone’; hence, to cringe; low Canadian; C. 20.1964F. O'Rourke Mule for Marquesa 200 They rode on toward the small water hole... Dolworth led them off a plateau down the rocky trail to the suckhole under the rock ledge.1966P. Mathers Trap 12 Our progressive mayor..and his pack of scabby suckhole mates.1968J. Wainwright Edge of Extinction 48 He can roast to hell—then go suckholing to Old Nick.1970Globe Mag. (Toronto) 31 Oct. 4/2 No matter how strong I could become there was still someone in this city of 470,000 who thought I was a suckhole.1972J. Metcalf Going down Slow vii. 128 Can't even fix yourself a sandwich without suckholing round that man.1843Lowe Fishes Madeira 177 Sebastes Maderensis..Little Rock-fish, or *Suck-jack.Ibid. 178 Its second Portuguese name of ‘Papa-Jaca’, or Suck-jack, it has earned by its troublesome addiction to hooks baited with the little crab ‘Jaca’.1887Daily News 20 June 2/6 German *suck lamb, 5s 4d.c1640H. Bell Luther's Colloq. Mens. (1652) 315 They compelled women with childe and *suck-nurses to fast.1611Cotgr., Humeux, a *sucke-pinte, or swill-pot; a notable drunkard.1586E. Hoby tr.Cognet's Polit.Disc. Truth 41 [They] winde themselues out of the handes of these *suckpurses [orig.succebourses].1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 425 Ebriosus,.. a dronkard: a *suckspigget.1639Horn & Rob.Gate Lang. Unl. lxxxiv. §823 A common drunkard (a suck-spiggot, swill-bowl) that is alwaies bibbing.1661K. W. Conf.Charac., Cambr. Minion (1860) 82 She's a fine finacle Cambridge production, got by and aiming no higher then some suckspicket sophister.1602Withals' Dict. 37 A little Fishe called a *Suckstone, yt staieth a ship vnder saile.1661Lovell Hist.Anim. & Min. 235 Suckstone. Remora. They are said by their magnetick vertue to stop ships.18..Shock-headed Peter, I said the Scissors Man would come, To disobedient *Suck-a-Thumb.1890E. Warren Laughing Eyes 50 A helpless suck-thumb infant.