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Sucked vs Screwed - What's the difference?

sucked | screwed |

As verbs the difference between sucked and screwed

is that sucked is (suck) while screwed is (screw).

As an adjective screwed is

(slang) beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.

sucked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (suck)

    • suck

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
  • To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
  • To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
  • To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
    • That she may sucke their life, and drinke their blood, / With which she from her childhood had bene fed.
  • To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
  • To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
  • To perform fellatio.
  • (slang) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
  • * 1970 , , Fear and Loathing in America , Simon and Schuster, p. 251:
    • . . . and it has a few very high points . . . but as a novel, it sucks

    Synonyms

    * To draw * To attract * (7, 8 above) To blow * See also

    Antonyms

    * (to bring something into the mouth by inhaling) to blow * (to be poor at) to rock, to rule

    Derived terms

    * insuck * suck a big one * suckable * suck a lemon * suck arse * suck ass * suck balls * suck cock * suck donkey balls * suck donkey cock * suck donkey dick * sucker * suck face * suck hind tit * suck into * suck it * suck it up * suck lemons * suck my balls * suck off * suck on that * suck out * suck rocks * suck tits * suck up * sucky * sucky-sucky * teach grandmother to suck eggs

    Related terms

    * suckle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
  • * 2001 , D. Martin Doney, Prayer Capsule: A Book of Honesty , page 261
    • Bammer agreed “Probably a good idea,” he agreed with a quick suck on his straw, “won't stop you from picking up any of these chicks, though.”
  • (vulgar) Fellatio of a man's penis.
  • * 2012 , Alex Carreras, Cruising with Destiny , page 12
    • Nate exhaled a long, slow breath. What the hell was he thinking? He couldn't cruise the steam room looking for married men looking for a quick suck . He needed to shoot his load, but was he really that desperate?
  • (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who won't go along, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
  • * 1999 , Hiromi Goto, “Drift”, in Ms. , v 9, n 3, p 82–6:
    • “Why're you bothering to take her anywhere? I can't stand traveling with her. You're such a suck ,” her sister said. Waved her smoke. “No fucking way I'm going.”
  • * 2008 , Beth Hitchcock, “Parenting Pair”, in Today's Parent , v 25, n 5, p 64:
    • I used to think she was such a suck ! She'd cry when I took to the ice, whether I skated well or badly. She'd cry when I left the house.
  • A sycophant, especially a child.
  • * 1916 , (James Joyce), (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) , Macmillan Press, p 23:
    • You are McGlade's suck .

    Synonyms

    * (crybaby) sook * (crybaby) sooky baby

    Anagrams

    * ----

    screwed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
    • They found out about our betrayal, so now we're screwed .
  • (slang, British) intoxicated.
  • * James Joyce, Dubliners
    • Besides they were dreadfully afraid that Freddy Malins might turn up screwed . They would not wish for worlds that any of Mary Jane's pupils should see him under the influence

    Usage notes

    * Often employed as a bowdlerization, or substitution, for (fucked).

    Synonyms

    * (sense) fucked, dicked, shagged (British)

    Derived terms

    *

    See also

    * screwed up

    Usage notes

    Because the sexual act as a metaphor for domination is a frequent association for the term 'screwed', it is potentially offensive in polite circles.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (screw)
    • He screwed the boards together tightly.
    I got screwed at the swap meet yesterday.
  • * 1641 , Richard Chambers (merchant), quoted in Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise, Part II: The After-Growth of the Constitution , H.O. Houghton & Company (1889), p. 274,
    • […] merchants are in no part of the world so screwed as in England. In Turkey, they have more encouragement.

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