saugen

Meaning

  1. (class-2, intransitive, strong, weak) to suck (to create underpressure with a tube-like object such as one's mouth)
  2. (class-2, strong, transitive, weak) to suck (something)
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, class-2, colloquial, ellipsis, strong, weak) ellipsis of staubsaugen (“to vacuum”)
  4. (Internet, class-2, colloquial, strong, transitive, weak) to download something, especially illegally
  5. (class-2, dated, intransitive, slang, strong, weak) to suck (to be inferior or objectionable)

Frequency

C2
Dialects

Aargau

Aargau

söggele

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

lulle

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

luurtsche

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

ninnele

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

nuggele

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

nuggerle

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

nunnele

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

syggele

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

suuge

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

suggele

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈzaʊ̯ɡn̩]
Etymology

In summary

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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