Literary notes about suck (AI summary)
The term "suck" is wielded with remarkable flexibility in literature, operating on multiple levels of meaning. In some works, it retains its basic, literal sense of drawing nourishment—whether describing a baby feeding at the breast ([1], [2], [3]) or even the act of extracting air or liquid ([4], [5]). Yet, authors also imbue it with metaphorical force; in philosophical and poetic texts, it becomes a symbol for passive absorption or parasitism, as when life or qualities are drawn from another ([6], [7]). At times the word takes on distinctly erotic or ribald connotations, its usage layered with provocative imagery of physical desire ([8], [9], [10]). Even in contexts of satire or everyday speech, "suck" evolves to capture notions of depletion or poor quality ([11], [12]), illustrating its enduring capacity to mirror the complexities of human experience.
- And there was a bottle that had had milk in it, and it had a rag stopper for a baby to suck.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Make the patient suck the milk of the breast of a woman, whose baby is more than eighty days old.”
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston - So the woman staid at home, and gave her son suck, till she weaned him.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The inner chamber of the cup is now shut off except for the small hole A. Apply the mouth to the valve A and suck the air out of the chamber.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne - Then he proceeds to suck this concoction into his system.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - They suck their nourishment, like parasite plants, from the works of others, and like polypi, they become the colour of their food.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - You thus employ'd, I will go root away The noisome weeds which without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - All the afternoon, too, I have got you to suck my member and my testicles.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous - I know so well how to have and suck a woman, my member is enormous, it is beautiful, rose-coloured, large, long, hard and vigorous.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous - “Now suck my prick, as she sucked yours.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous - These special interests which suck the people's substance are bi-partisan.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - Spending Fridays at school was teh suck anyway, and I was glad of the excuse to make my escape.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow