sucan

sucan (uncountable)

1. A Welsh food, a kind of thin flummery.

• Ancus, Cunas

From Proto-Germanic *sūkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *suk-. Akin to sūgan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːkɑn/

sūcan

1. to suck
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Apostles Simon and Jude"

     Þā ongunnon ealla þā nædran tō ċēowenne heora flǣsċ and heora blōd sūcan þæt hīe þæt ātor ūt ātugon.

     Then all the snakes began to chew their flesh and suck their blood to draw the poison out.

• Middle English: souken, suken
  • English: suck