| 词汇 | sucker |
| 词源 | sucker. The origin of the word sucker, for “a dupe or easily tricked person,” is a mystery. One theory holds that the slang word comes from the name of one of the many American freshwater fishes called suckers because they have lips that sug- gest that they feed by suction. Several of these fish are easily caught and might have suggested an easily hooked or hood- winked person. But the word, first recorded in 1831, could just as well derive from sucker in the sense of a not-yet-weaned ani- mal, with the sucker’s naïveté reminiscent of the innocence of a child still sucking at its mother’s breast. |
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