What is suck?

Famous quotes containing the word suck:

    “Where the bee sucks, there suck I,
    In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
    There I couch when owls do cry.
    On the bat’s back I do fly
    After summer merrily.
    Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
    Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Your nipples are stitched up like sutures
    and although I suck
    I suck air....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “You know I’d a shot her when she come runnin’ up here, but she’s got the blame best lookin’ legs I ever seen.... Well, I’ll be a suck egg mule—legs like that and can shoot too.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)