Patsy vs. Sucker — What's the Difference?

A person easily taken advantage of, cheated, blamed, or ridiculed.

One that sucks, especially an unweaned domestic animal.

A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.

One who is easily deceived; a dupe.

A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified

An unspecified thing. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive

A person. Used as a generalized term of reference, often as an intensive

A lollipop.

A piston or piston valve, as in a suction pump or syringe.

A tube or pipe, such as a siphon, through which something is sucked.

Any of numerous freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae of North America and East Asia, having a thick-lipped mouth used for feeding by suction.

(Zoology) An organ or other structure adapted for sucking nourishment or for clinging to objects by suction.

(Botany) A secondary shoot produced from the base or roots of a woody plant that gives rise to a new plant.

To strip suckers or shoots from (plants).

(Informal) To trick; dupe

To send out suckers or shoots.

A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.

(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.

(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.

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.

A thing that works by sucking something.

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 suction cup.

An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

(ichthyology) 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.

A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.

A hard drinker.

An inhabitant of Illinois.

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.

A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.

(informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.

The penis.

Any thing or object.

A person.

To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.

(intransitive) To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.

To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

To lure someone.

One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

A suckling; a sucking 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; - used by children as a plaything.

A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; - so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidæ; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.

A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.

A hard drinker; a soaker.

A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived.

A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.

Any thing or person; - usually implying annoyance or dislike; as, I went to change the blade and cut my finger on the sucker.

A person strongly attracted to something; - usually used with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes.

To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

To cheat or deceive (a gullible person); to make a sucker of (someone).

To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

A shoot arising from a plant's roots

A drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)

Flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

Hard candy on a stick

An organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction

Mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps