The difference between Schlemiel and Sucker
When used as nouns, schlemiel means a loser or a fool, whereas sucker means a person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder.
Sucker is also verb with the meaning: to strip the suckers or shoots from.
check bellow for the other definitions of Schlemiel and Sucker
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Schlemiel as a noun:
A loser or a fool.
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Schlemiel as a noun:
A person who is clumsy or who hurts others emotionally.
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Sucker as a noun:
A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
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Sucker as a noun (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.
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Sucker as a noun:
A parasite; a sponger.
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Sucker as a noun:
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.
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Sucker as a noun:
A thing that works by sucking something.
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Sucker as a noun:
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
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Sucker as a noun:
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
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Sucker as a noun:
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.
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Sucker as a noun (British, colloquial):
A suction cup.
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Sucker as a noun:
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
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Sucker as a noun:
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
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Sucker as a noun (American, informal):
A piece of candy which is sucked ; a lollipop
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Sucker as a noun (slang, archaic):
A hard drinker; a soaker.
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Sucker as a noun (American, obsolete):
An inhabitant of Illinois.
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Sucker as a noun (American, slang):
A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person
Examples:
"usex One poor sucker had actually given her his life’s savings."
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Sucker as a noun:
A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
Examples:
"usex A sucker for ghost stories."
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Sucker as a noun (obsolete, vulgar, British slang):
The penis.
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Sucker as a verb (horticulture, transitive):
To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
Examples:
"to sucker maize"
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Sucker as a verb (horticulture, intransitive):
To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.
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Sucker as a verb (transitive):
To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
Examples:
"The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract."
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Sucker as a noun (slang):
A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
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Sucker as a noun (informal):
Generalized term of reference to a person.
Examples:
"See if you can get that sucker working again."