sucan

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English

Noun

sucan (uncountable)

  1. A Welsh food, a kind of thin flummery.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

sucan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of sucar

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sūkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *suk-. Akin to sūgan.

Pronunciation

Verb

sūcan

  1. to suck
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Apostles Simon and Jude"
      Þā ongunnon ealla þā nædran tō ċēowenne heora flǣsċ and heora blōd sūcan þæt hīe þæt ātor ūt ātugen.
      Then all the snakes began to chew their flesh and suck their blood to draw the poison out.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Middle English: souken, suken