zuigen
Meaning
- suck
- vacuum, hoover
- (intransitive) suckle, nurse
- pester
- (colloquial) to be bad, to suck
Concepts
suck
hoover
suckle
squish
Synonyms
opzuigen
lurken
sabbelen
drinken
zabbelen
aanzuigen
Frequency
Hyphenated as
zui‧gen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈzœy̯.ɣə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sugen, from Old Dutch sūgan, from Proto-West Germanic *sūgan, from Proto-Germanic *sūganą. The meaning "be bad" is a semantic loan from English suck.
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