Etymology

sucky

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Today it means: Suitable for sucking Full definition →

English suck ← Middle English souken ← Old English sūcan
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*sūkaną
  2. Proto-West Germanic*sūkan
  3. Old Englishsūcan
  4. Middle Englishsouken
  5. Englishsuck
  6. English todaysucky

From suck + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.