Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A female demon supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with a man while he sleeps.
- noun An evil spirit; a demon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A demon fabled to have sexual intercourse with human beings in their sleep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf.
incubus . - noun (Med.) The nightmare. See
Nightmare , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams toseduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion ordeath . - noun A
strumpet ,whore orprostitute .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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ReverandG and eat them with some fava beans and some fine Chianti. on the subject of self censoring & the word succubus ....
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People are wondering why succubus is considered part of Wizard’s IP.
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In later times she was known as a succubus who destroyed her lovers.
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In later times she was known as a succubus who destroyed her lovers.
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She was some kind of a morbid Catholic, because that word succubus was unknown to the profane.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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If you haven't seen the South Park episode featuring Chef almost marrying a succubus, you should know that a succubus is a demon in female form who kill men for their energy.
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If you haven't seen the South Park episode featuring Chef almost marrying a succubus, you should know that a succubus is a demon in female form who kill men for their energy.
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A succubus is a demon who takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men (especially monks) in dreams to have ...
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A good deal of the players returning to the house was bleeped out, so I can only assume that everyone was repeating "succubus" over and over.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Mothra, the Penguin, and the Succubus. 2010
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First "succubus" is broadcast nationally, and then The Chenbot's ode to anal sex with The Beast.
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punchcard commented on the word succubus
A succubus (plural succubi) is a demon who takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men, especially monks, in dreams to have sexual intercourse, according the medieval European legend. Their male counterpart is the incubus. They draw energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death of the victim.
September 27, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word succubus
Sometimes in the altered form succuba with feminine ending (which in Latin actually meant "whore"). The primacy of the masculine -us ending, however, means (I think) that it is not the case that the demons were female, rather that they took female form to lie under (sub-cub-) men; as they took male form to lie in (in-cub-) women.
June 10, 2009
sionnach commented on the word succubus
Interesting that succubus is on 42 wordies' lists, while incubus appears on only 27. Incubus, in contrast, enjoys several more Weirdnet definitions.
September 14, 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word succubus
(noun) - Some authors mean by it a female phantom with which a man, in his sleep, sometimes believes he has intercourse, as incubus, applied to the male phantom, with which a female may dream she is similarly situate. Incubus, a sensation of a heavy weight at the epigastrum during sleep. The sensation of suffocation was formerly ascribed to the person's being possessed. The disease requires no particular treatment. --Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
January 31, 2018