Obs. Forms: 5 soket, 6 suckitte, -ette, succet, suk(k)ett, sok(k)ett, 6–7 socket, suckett, 6–8 sucket. [Altered form of SUCCATE after SUCK v. and -ET.] = SUCCADE.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 42. Item, soket viij. li. vj. onces viij.s. vj.d.
1509. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), V. 5. Comfettes, sugir plattes, and suckittes. Ibid. (1542), VI. 167. A longe silver spone for sokett, a longe forke of silver for sokett.
1544. Phaër, Regim. Lyfe (1553), E. ij, Sucket of citrons.
1611. Cotgr., Carbassat, wet sucket, made of the vpper part of the long white Pompion, cut in slices.
1615. Markham, Eng. Housew., ii. 78. Your preserued fruites shall be disht vp first, your Pastes next, your wet Suckets after them, then your dried Suckets.
1662. Hibbert, Body Divinity, I. 77. Pope Alexander poysoned the Turks brother in candid suckets.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. iii. 80/1. Dried Sweetmeats & Suckets of Oranges.
1751. Affect. Narr. H.M.S. Wager, 7. Here is plenty of Citrons, of which they make a fine Sweet-meat, or Sucket.
b. transf. and fig.
1607. Walkington, Optic Glass, 27. This made the Castalianist … to bee esteemed … the Marmalade and Sucket of the Muses.
1635. Brathwait, Arcadian Princ., III. 214. Celsus a theevish Poet … was arraign’d … For stealing Suckets from an others hive.
1654. Cleveland, Poems, 4. Natures confectioner, the Bee, Whose suckets are moist Alchimie.
c. As a term of endearment.
1605. Tryall Chev., II. i. Peace, good Thomasin, silence, sweet socket.
d. attrib. and Comb.
1575. Laneham, Lett. (1871), 23. The bridecup, foormed of a sweet sucket barrell.
1636. Davenant, Wits, II. i. Now does my blood wamble! you! Sucket eater!
¶ Reliable evidence for the survival of sucket in mod. dialects is wanting. Halliwell’s entry sucket, a young rabbit, is clearly an error for sucker.
