zuigen

Meaning

  1. suck
  2. vacuum, hoover
  3. (intransitive) suckle, nurse
  4. pester
  5. (colloquial) to be bad, to suck

Concepts

suck

hoover

suckle

squish

Synonyms

opzuigen

lurken

sabbelen

drinken

zabbelen

aanzuigen

Frequency

C1
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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