different between suchlike vs such

English

Alternative forms

• such like, such-like

Etymology

From such +? like.

Adjective

suchlike (not comparable)

1. Of the same or similar kind.
   • 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholmew Fayre, Induction:

     If there bee neuer a Seruant-mon?ter i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he ?ayes ; nor a ne?t of Antiques ? ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like tho?e that beget Tales, Tempe?ts, and ?uch like Drolleries, […]

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Pronoun

suchlike

1. Other things of the same kind or type.
   • 2020: Washington Post

     That is, we use reading not just as a means to educate ourselves, or to “explore other worlds” and suchlike, but to literally keep our distance from others.

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Usage notes

• The word is morphologically redundant in form, as the first element such itself synchronically corresponds to so +? like, thereby rendering the whole word as equivalent to so +? like +? like.

English

Alternative forms

• sich, sech (dialectal)
• soch, soche (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swel?, from Proto-Germanic *swal?kaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so +? like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), Low German sölk, sulk, sülk, suk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Determiner

such

1. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
2. (particularly used in formal documents) Any.

3. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of.
4. (obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

   • In rushed one and tells him such a knight / Is new arrived.

   • To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year.

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Pronoun

such

1. A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
   • 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315:

     These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery.

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Noun

such (plural suches)

1. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else.

Related terms

Anagrams

• CHUs, Cush, cush, hucs

German

Pronunciation

Verb

such

1. second-person singular imperative present of suchen

Middle English

Determiner

such

1. Alternative form of swich