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tuck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English t?cian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukk?n?), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), Old English t?on (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.
Verb
tuck (third-person singular simple present tucks, present participle tucking, simple past and past participle tucked)
- (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). [From 14thc.]
- (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden. [From 1580s.]
- (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume. [From 1780s.]
- (ergative) To fit neatly.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To full, as cloth.
- (LGBT, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- (when playing scales on piano keys) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of Mach tuck.
Antonyms
- untuck
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
tuck (plural tucks)
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. [From late 14thC.]
- (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A curled position.
- (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- (diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- (nautical) The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
Related terms
- tucker
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French estoc (“rapier”), from Italian stocco (“a truncheon, a short sword”)
Noun
tuck (plural tucks)
- (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
- [...] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck [...]
- 1601, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Act III, Scene I.
- [...] dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. [...]
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
Translations
Etymology 3
Compare tocsin.
Noun
tuck (plural tucks)
- The beat of a drum.
Etymology 4
Old Occitan tuc (“uncooked”).
Noun
tuck (uncountable)
- (Britain, dated, school slang) Food, especially snack food.
Derived terms
- tuck shop
- tuck box
- tuck in
Manx
Verb
tuck (verbal noun tuckal, past participle tuckit)
- to full (cloth)
Synonyms
- walk
- giallee
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tucker
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t?k?/, [?t??k?]
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t?k?/, [?t??k?]
- Homophone: Tucker
- Rhymes: -?k?(r)
Etymology 1
tuck +? -er
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Verb
tucker (third-person singular simple present tuckers, present participle tuckering, simple past and past participle tuckered)
- (slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
Derived terms
- tucker out
Noun
tucker (countable and uncountable, plural tuckers)
- (countable) One who or that which tucks.
- 1914, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conciliation, Arbitration, and Sanitation in the Dress and Waist Industry of New York City, Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 145, page 108,
- Nature of Grievance:
- Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers, laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the tuckers on account of the recent controversy.
- Determination:
- Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90.
- Nature of Grievance:
- 1914, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conciliation, Arbitration, and Sanitation in the Dress and Waist Industry of New York City, Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 145, page 108,
- (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
- (slang, dated) Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
Translations
Derived terms
- bush tucker
See also
- best bib and tucker
- tucker fucker
Etymology 2
From Middle English tokker (“one who dresses or finishes cloth”).
Noun
tucker (plural tuckers)
- (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, unnumbered page,
- “And, ma?am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.”
- “I think I can explain that circumstance, sir. Agnes and Catherine Johnstone were invited to take tea with some friends at Lowton last Thursday, and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckers for the occasion.”
- 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives, 1903, page 57,
- “Now let us go home, and never mind Aunt March to-day. We can run down there any time, and it?s really a pity to trail through the dust in our best bibs and tuckers, when we are tired and cross.”
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, unnumbered page,
- (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.
Anagrams
- retuck
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