suckerish

English

From sucker +‎ -ish.

suckerish (comparative more suckerish, superlative most suckerish)

(informal) Resembling or characteristic of the sucker of an animal.
- 1995, Marion Kay Douglas, Bending at the Bow:
  […] plans, plans, plans, spreading outward from my hard skull, but in the soft and suckerish manner of an octopus.
- 2012, C H Garbutt, Black Pool:
  It took several minutes and a few more of its suckerish tentacles to complete the search, but at last the Kraken found a closed clamshell. It passed it to me.
(informal) Gullible; easily taken advantage of.
- 1934, Bangkok Review, volume 1, number 3, page 18:
  He even forgets about the great sum he loses, but perpetually irritates himself with his own suckerish imagination.
- 1999, The New Yorker, volume 75, numbers 1-10, page 94:
  Not since the early, suckerish days of a bourgeoisie that caught the brunt of Dada and Surrealism have congenitally ungrateful artists been presented with so large and luscious a hand to bite.