suck n.1
(UK Und.) wine or strong drink.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Nugae Venales 28: A Farmer being Consumptive, came with his Wife to a Doctor, who advised him to drink Asses milk [...] saying moreover, that if he could not get it the Farmer should come to him; why Husband, said the Wife, doth the Doctor give suck? | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Suck, Wine or strong Drink. This is rum Suck, it is excellent Tipple. | |
| ‘Tom Tinker’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 172: She call’d in the Tinker and gave him a spell; / With Pig, Goose and Capon, and a good store of suck. | |
| New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
| , , , | | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
| Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 111: Good Drink, Rum Bues or Suck. | |
| Discoveries (1774) 43: Tip us rum Suck; give us good Beer. | |
| View of Society II 107: He had put a whole bottle of rum into the tea-kettle; from which she poured out a quantity [...] and continued pouring and tasting alternately, until she had completely napt the suck. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Flash Lang.’ in Confessions of Thomas Mount 19: Rum, suck. | |
| Autobiog. (1930) 292: Suck signifies rum. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Sussex Advertiser 14 Apr. 4/3: Such as were not provident enough to bring their ‘bub and grub’ [...] found it difficult enouigh to get ‘the suck’’. | |
| ‘Bill Bounce’ in Convivialist in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 27: At concert-room he’d drunk your suck, / Bill Bounce, the swell cove out o’ luck! | |
| Flash Mirror 19: [He] cautions the public against taking their suck of bandy-leg’d Cockman Joe as he has tipt N. Nickem turnips, and gone to live at the Duck and Salt Box. | |
| Quarter Race in Kentucky and Other Sketches 118: He therefore proposes to run them three hundred yards, for ‘sucks all round’. | |
| Vocabulum. |
In compounds
a public house, a tavern.
| Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 10: suck-casse, a public house. [Ibid.] 105: SUCK-CASSA, a public-house. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Eve. Tel. (Dundee) 1 Sept. 3/6: The language of the London East-end pub [...] ‘Boozing ken,’ a ‘Sluicery,’ a ‘suckcassa’ — A fully licensed house. |
a public house, a tavern.
| Secrets of Tramp Life Revealed 17: He has a nice bit of ready money, then like the rest of the moochers he must go to the ‘Suck Crib,’ or beerhouse and ‘galtees,’ or spends all he has got. |