Sucker vs Tiller - What's the difference?
sucker | tiller |
A person or thing that sucks.
An organ or body part that does the sucking.
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollipop.
(horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
(British, colloquial) A suction cup.
A suckling animal.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
A parasite; a sponger.
* Fuller
(slang, archaic) A hard drinker; a soaker.
A person that sucks; a general term of disparagement.
To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
(slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
A person who tills; a farmer.
* 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, page 63:
A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
(obsolete) A young tree.
A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
(archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
(nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
A handle; a stalk.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
As nouns the difference between sucker and tiller
is that sucker is a person or thing that sucks while tiller is a person who tills; a farmer.As verbs the difference between sucker and tiller
is that sucker is to strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers while tiller is to put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.sucker
English
Etymology 1
From the verb (suck).Noun
(en noun)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- (Boyle)
- They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker , no branch.
Synonyms
* (piece of candy) lollipopEtymology 2
Possibly from the (Pig in a poke) scam, where victims were tricked into believing they were buying a young (that is a suckling) pig. Also possibly from suckener.Synonyms
* (one who is easily fooled) chump, fall-guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.
Etymology 3
Possibly from German (thing).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* thing, objectSee also
* (wikipedia "sucker")Anagrams
* English agent nounstiller
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
Synonyms
* (machine) cultivatorSee also
* motor plowEtymology 2
From (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- (Evelyn)
Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- You can shoot in a tiller .
- (Dryden)