different between tusker vs tucker

English

Etymology 1

From tusk +? -er.

Noun

tusker (plural tuskers)

1. An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
   • 1928 June, Fred Graves, Houdini of the Desert: Face to Face with Savage Elephants, Popular Science, page 19,

     The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse torfskeri, from torf (“turf”) + skera (“to cut”), whence also Scottish Gaelic tairsgear, toirsgear and later forms like toirsgein (assimilated to sgian (“knife”)). Known in print from the early 19th century, but doubtless much older.

Alternative forms

• tuskar, toysker, tushkar, tushker, twiscar

Noun

tusker (plural tuskers)

1. (Britain, especially Scotland, Orkney, Shetland) A tool used in peat cutting, a type of spade similar to a cascrom.

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Tuskar”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 1 (Ti–U), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 512, column 3.
• Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[2], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 276

Anagrams

• Kuster, Turkes

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)

1. (slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.

Derived terms

• tucker out

Noun

tucker (countable and uncountable, plural tuckers)

1. (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.

2. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
3. (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)

1. (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.”

2. (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.

Anagrams

• retuck