ppl. a. [f. SUCK v. + -ED1.] In various senses of the verb; extracted, absorbed or depleted by suction.
Sucked orange: see ORANGE sb.1 1 b.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., IV. iii. 127. Did he leaue him there Food to the suck’d and hungry Lyonnesse?
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 633. Nigh burst With suckt and glutted offal.
1824. Miss Ferrier, Inher., lxxii. Pretty!—what makes her pretty?—wi’ a face like a sooket carvy!
1857. W. E. Gladstone, in Morley Life (1903), I. IV. viii. 561. But for Disraeli, who could not be thrown away like a sucked orange.
1881. Ensor, Journ. Nubia, viii. 73. Nothing remained but the sucked and marrowless bones scattered about on the ground.
1904. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 17 Sept., 665. Some half dozen [maggots] which were filled with recently sucked blood.
1906. Charlotte Mansfield, Girl & Gods, xxiii. The streets seemed filled with drunkards, sucked oranges, hot chestnuts, sore noses and chilblains.
1909. ‘J. Oxenham,’ Great-Heart Gillian, xliii. 310 Baby Gillian … waved a sucked pink thumb at him and his men.
b. Sucked stone, a honeycombed stone occurring in the tin lodes of Cornwall.
1778. Pryce, Min. Cornub., 90. The Lode itself … is cavernous, and full of holes, thence called a Sucked Stone by the Tinners.
1814. W. Phillips, in Trans. Geol. Soc., II. 118.
