Fool vs. Sucker
Difference Between Fool and Sucker
Foolnoun
(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.Suckernoun
A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
Foolnoun
(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
Suckernoun
(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.
Foolnoun
(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
Suckernoun
A parasite; a sponger.
Foolnoun
Buddy, dude, person.
Suckernoun
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.
Foolnoun
(cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
an apricot fool; a gooseberry foolSuckernoun
A thing that works by sucking something.
Foolnoun
A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
Suckernoun
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
Foolverb
To trick; to deceive
Suckernoun
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
Foolverb
To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly
Suckernoun
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.
Fooladjective
(informal) foolish
Suckernoun
A suction cup.
Foolnoun
a person who lacks good judgment
Suckernoun
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
Foolnoun
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Suckernoun
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
Foolnoun
a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
Suckernoun
A piece of candy which is sucked ; a lollipop
Foolverb
make a fool or dupe of
Suckernoun
A hard drinker; a soaker.
Foolverb
spend frivolously and unwisely;
Fritter away one's inheritanceSuckernoun
An inhabitant of Illinois.
Foolverb
fool or hoax;
The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyoneYou can't fool me!Suckernoun
A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person
One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings.Foolverb
indulge in horseplay;
Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!The bored children were fooling aboutSuckernoun
A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
A sucker for ghost stories.Suckernoun
The penis.
Suckernoun
(slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
Suckernoun
(informal) Generalized term of reference to a person.
See if you can get that sucker working again.Suckerverb
To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
to sucker maizeSuckerverb
To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.
Suckerverb
(transitive) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.Suckernoun
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Suckernoun
a shoot arising from a plant's roots
Suckernoun
a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
Suckernoun
flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
Suckernoun
hard candy on a stick
Suckernoun
an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
Suckernoun
mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
