Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dried sweetmeat or sugarplum; hence, a delicacy of any kind.
  • noun A sucking rabbit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.

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  • noun A candied sweetmeat

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Examples

  • In those days, when sugar was a costly commodity, a sucket was more esteemed than now.

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

  • Here is the key of the toy, a sucket which will pass neither teeth nor throat.

    St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

  • Here is the key of the toy, a sucket which will pass neither teeth nor throat.

    St. George and St. Michael Volume III George MacDonald 1864

  • When they are at this pass, you may either keep them as a wet sucket in

    The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634

  • Do you know what Mr. Valianatos said, and why was he sucket?

    SofiaEcho RSS feed 2009

  • Whereunto Pantagruel would not give consent, but commanded him to depart thence speedily and begone as he had told him, and to that effect gave him a boxful of euphorbium, together with some grains of the black chameleon thistle, steeped into aqua vitae, and made up into the condiment of a wet sucket, commanding him to carry it to his king, and to say unto him, that if he were able to eat one ounce of that without drinking after it, he might then be able to resist him without any fear or apprehension of danger.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Whereunto Pantagruel would not give consent, but commanded him to depart thence speedily and begone as he had told him, and to that effect gave him a boxful of euphorbium, together with some grains of the black chameleon thistle, steeped into aqua vitae, and made up into the condiment of a wet sucket, commanding him to carry it to his king, and to say unto him, that if he were able to eat one ounce of that without drinking after it, he might then be able to resist him without any fear or apprehension of danger.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Pantagruel would not give consent, but commanded him to depart thence speedily and begone as he had told him, and to that effect gave him a boxful of euphorbium, together with some grains of the black chameleon thistle, steeped into aqua vitae, and made up into the condiment of a wet sucket, commanding him to carry it to his king, and to say unto him, that if he were able to eat one ounce of that without drinking after it, he might then be able to resist him without any fear or apprehension of danger.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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  • This is a terrible word.

    Usage/historical note in comment on eryngo.

    January 9, 2017

  • Where can I get me a sucking rabbit?

    January 10, 2017

  • A cutlery implement with spoon on one end and fork on the other, according to NPR's Says You!.

    July 1, 2017