Sucked in. An expression derived from “Buying a pig in a poke.” See “[Let the Cat out of the Bag].”
Sucker State. Illinois, so called from the Galena lead miners, who disappeared during the winter and returned to Galena in the spring, when the sucker-fish in the Fevre River abounded. The people of this state are accordingly styled “Suckers.”
Suffolk. A corruption of “South Folk,” the inhabitants of the southern division of East Anglia.
Suffolk Lane. From the ancient town house of the Dukes of Suffolk.
Suffolk Street. From Suffolk House, the residence of the Earls of Suffolk in former days.
Suffragette. If this latter-day term possesses any etymological significance whatever, it expresses the diminutive of one who claims the suffrage or the right, from the Latin suffragio, to vote. A suffragette is, in brief, a woman who ought to know better. Eager to take upon herself the responsibilities of citizenship on a common footing with the male orders of creation, she cannot but shirk those which rightly belong to her own state.
Sulky. A two-wheeled carriage for a single person, so called from the popular idea at the time of its introduction that anyone who wished to ride alone could not be otherwise than morose and sulky in his disposition.
Sumatra. From the Arabic Simatra, “happy land.”
Sumner Street. After Dr Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, one of the last occupants of Winchester House in this neighbourhood.
Sun. An inn sign after the heraldic device of Richard II.