saugen
Meaning
- (class-2,intransitive,strong,weak) to suck (to create underpressure with a tube-like object such as one's mouth)
- (class-2,strong,transitive,weak) to suck (something)
- (abbreviation,alt-of,class-2,colloquial,ellipsis,strong,weak) Ellipsis of staubsaugen (“to vacuum”).
- (Internet,class-2,colloquial,strong,transitive,weak) to download something, especially illegally
- (class-2,dated,intransitive,slang,strong,weak) to suck (to be inferior or objectionable)
Concepts
suck
absorb
suck in
hoover
chew
lick
drink
suckle
leech
nurse
sip
Frequency
Hyphenated as
sau‧gen
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈzaʊ̯ɡn̩]
Etymology
From Middle High German sūgen, from Old High German sūgan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūgan, from Proto-Germanic *sūganą, from Proto-Indo-European *sewk-. The sense “be inferior or objectionable”, which was never common and always somewhat jocular or tongue-in-cheek, is a semantic loan from English suck in the same sense. Compare Low German sugen, Dutch zuigen, Danish suge.
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