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susie | sue |

As a proper noun susie

is a diminutive of susan and of related female given names.

As a verb sue is

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susie

English

Alternative forms

* Susy * Suzie * Suzy

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.
  • *1988 Margaret Atwood: Cat's Eye : page 295:
  • *:Susie has yellow hair, - - - . She has a little breathless voice and a startled little laugh; even her name is like a powder puff.
  • sue

    English

    Verb

  • To follow.
  • * , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
  • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
  • though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
  • (label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  • (label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  • To clean (the beak, etc.).
  • To leave high and dry on shore.
  • To court.
  • Derived terms

    * sue for peace

    Anagrams

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