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timesuck

noun

Etymology

From time + suck.

  1. derived from *sewg-✻
  2. derived from *sūkaną✻ — “to suck, suckle”
  3. inherited from *sūkan✻
  4. inherited from sūcan — “to suck”
  5. inherited from souken
  6. compounded as timesuck — “time + suck”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of time sink.

    • Give it a try and explore some of the Paint Shop Pro Web rings. You never know what you'll find. Be careful, though, because this can be a huge timesuck and you might find the afternoon slipping away unnoticed.
    • the old-fashioned timesuck of housework

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for timesuck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA