different between ruck vs uck

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ruke, from Old Norse. Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

1. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. [from 16th c.]
2. In Australian rules football
   1. A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
   2. A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
   3. (now rare) Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
   4. Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
3. (rugby union) The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum. [from 20th c.]
4. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks. [from 19th c.]

Usage notes

In the second Australian rules football sense, "ruck" is a gender-neutral term. "Ruckman" is sometimes considered to refer only to men, but is often considered gender-neutral. "Ruckwoman" only refers to women.

Translations

See also

• maul
• scrum

Verb

ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
2. (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.

Translations

Derived terms

• outruck

Etymology 2

1780, from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle, crease”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkij?, *hrunkit? (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Icelandic hrukka (“wrinkle, crease, ruck”), Old High German runza (“fold, wrinkle, crease”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Middle Dutch ronse (“frown”). More at frounce. Possibly related to Irish roc.

Verb

ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)

1. (transitive) To crease or fold.
2. (intransitive) To become folded.

See also

• ruche (“to pleat; to bunch up”)
• rutch (“to slide”)

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

1. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.

Etymology 3

Compare Danish ruge (“to brood, to hatch”).

Verb

ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.

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Etymology 4

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

1. Obsolete form of roc.

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Etymology 5

Clipping of rucksack.

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

1. (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.

Verb

ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)

1. To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

See also

• rucksack
• backpack
• backpacking

Etymology 6

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Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

1. A small heifer.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?œk/

Noun

ruck m (plural rucks)

1. (rugby) ruck

English

Interjection

uck

1. Alternative spelling of yuck

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:yuck