different between sucker vs sacker

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?/
• (General Australian)
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)
• Homophone: succor

Etymology 1

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) +? -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Suuger, West Frisian sûker (“sucker”), Dutch zuiger (“sucker”), German Sauger (“dummy; vacuum”).

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

1. A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned. [from late 14th century]
2. (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. [from 1570s]
3. (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrounger
4. An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
5. A thing that works by sucking something.
6. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
7. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
8. 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.
9. (Britain, colloquial) A suction cup.
10. An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
11. (zoology) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments. [from 1750s]
12. (US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked. [from 1820s]
13. (slang, archaic) A hard drinker.

    Synonyms: soaker, suck-pint; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

14. (US, obsolete) An inhabitant of Illinois.

    Synonym: Illinoisian
15. (US, obsolete) A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
16. (US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person. [from 1830s]

    Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch; see also Thesaurus:dupe
17. (informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

18. (obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The penis.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

Holonyms

• suckerdom

Translations

Verb

sucker (third-person singular simple present suckers, present participle suckering, simple past and past participle suckered)

1. (horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

   to sucker maize
2. (horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.
3. (intransitive) To move or attach itself by means of suckers.
   • 1961, Olympia (issues 1-4, page 83)

     I am now the octopus, mucus, held together by soft moist membrane, suckering everywhere.

   • 2017, Elizabeth Hand, Bradford Morrow, Other Aliens

     He paused at the octopus tank. Clyde, our resident giant Pacific octopus, was suckering his way across the front panel.

   • 2018, TW Neal, Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii

     I hold the octopus around the middle, suckering and so heavy, trying to crawl down my belly and legs to get away. I run to shore, trying to keep the tentacles off me, but it's too big and strong.

4. (transitive, informal) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

   The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly from German Sache (“thing”).

Noun

sucker (plural suckers)

1. (slang, emphatic) Any thing or object.
   • 1975, Frank Zappa, "San Ber'dino":

     She's in love with a boy from the rodeo who pulls the rope on the chute when they let those suckers go.

   • 1984, Runaway (film): scene in a helicopter, around 5 min 20 sec

     RAMSAY: Dave, can you land this sucker?

   See if you can get that sucker working again.

2. (slang, derogatory) A person.
   • 2009, Stephen Hunter, The Day Before Midnight: A Novel, Bantam (?ISBN), page 232:

     You got to hit that sucker and hit him over and over. You got to hope he runs out ...

   • 2016, John Sandford, Extreme Prey, Prey (?ISBN), page 244:

     Maybe you hit that sucker and we'll get some DNA ...

Usage notes

Usually preceded by a demonstrative adjective (this, that, these, those).

Synonyms

• (thing or object): thing, object

See also

• sucker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Uckers

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk?(r)

Etymology 1

sack +? -er

Noun

sacker (plural sackers)

1. A person who sacks or plunders.
   • 1578, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ, London: Henry Denham,^[1]

     Direptor & vexator vrbis. Cicer[o]. A spoy[l]er and sacker of a citie.

   • 1743, Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great (Miscellanies, Volume 3), London: A. Millar, Book 1, Chapter 13, p. 80,^[2]

     Do not some by Honour mean Good-Nature and Humanity, which weak Minds call Virtues? How then! Must we deny it to the Great, the Brave, the Noble, to the Sackers of Towns, the Plunderers of Provinces, and the Conquerors of Kingdoms? Were not these Men of Honour?

   • 1883, Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers (translators), The Iliad of Homer, London: Macmillan, Book 10, p. 194,^[3]

     […] Tydeus’ son and Odysseus the sacker of cities cut Dolon off from the host, and ever pursued hard after him.

   • 1980, Don DeLillo and Sue Buck (as Cleo Birdwell), Amazons, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Chapter 4, p. 70,^[4]

     I think he liked standing over me. It is sort of the warrior’s view. The sacker and plunderer.

2. A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
   • 1929, P. D. Peterson, Through the Black Hills and Bad Lands of South Dakota, Pierre, SD: J. Fred Olander, Chapter 5 “Cement Plant,” p. 41,^[5]

     There are two men, known as sackers who, with the use of machinery, can fill 15,000 to 20,000 sacks a day.

   • 2012, Ross Ramsey, “Life of a Texas Lawmaker: Lousy Pay, Great Benefits” The Texas Tribune, 13 April, 2012,^[6]

     Know a grocery sacker with a pension like that?

3. A machine or device for filling sacks.
   • 1950, E. D. Gordon and W. M. Hurst, Artificial Drying of Forage Crops, Washington: DC, United States Department of Agriculture, Circular No. 443, p. 20,^[7]

     The feeder conveys the chopped alfalfa to the drying-drum—from the drum the dried forage is conveyed through one or more cooling cyclones to a hammer mill—then through one or more cyclones for further cooling and finally to a sacker.

4. A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
   • 2014, Nick Harris, “His impoverished club haven't known the glory days for 27 years but...” 18 January, 2014,^[8]

     Romanov was a serial sacker of managers, picked the team himself at times from Vilnius […]

   • 2017, Joe Murphy, “Jeremy Corbyn: Glastonbury’s ‘hero of peace’ prepares to do battle with own Labour ranks to get his way” London Evening Standard, 30 June, 2017,^[9]

     In just six days, Labour’s leader has gone from chino-clad hero of the peace and love brigade to intolerant sacker of pro-Europeans in his ranks.

5. (baseball, softball, in combination) A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
   • 1910, George Randolph Chester, The Early Bird, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 15,^[10]

     The ball crossed the base before he did, but it bounded between the third sacker’s feet, and score two was marked up for Hollis Creek, with nobody out!

   • 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, New York: Time Reading Program, 1966, “Batter Up!” p. 56,^[11]

     About forty years ago Pop was the third sacker for the old Sox when they got into their first World Series after twenty years.

   • 2009, John H. Ritter, New York: Philomel, Chapter 35, p. 226,^[12]

     Reinspired, he sprang from the dugout and ran out to second base so quickly, the Chicago second sacker, Cal McVey, was still walking in from shallow right field.

6. (American football) A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
   • 2017, Bob Wojnowski, “Wojo: Patriots hand Lions cold glimpse of reality,” The Detroit News, 26 August, 2017,^[13]

     The loss of last year’s leading sacker, Kerry Hyder Jr., for the season with an Achilles injury is still problematic.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

sacker (plural sackers)

1. Alternative form of saker (cannon)

Anagrams

• ackers, crakes, creaks, screak