Tuck Definition
- to eat (something) heartily
- to put aside or apart, as for future use
- to pull in or contract (one's chin, stomach, etc.)
- to eat (something) heartily
Origin of Tuck
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From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)"), from Old English tÅ«cian (“to torment, vex") and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck"), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull") (compare also *tukkōnÄ…), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull"). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug"), zuchôn (“to jerk"), Old English tÄ“on (“to draw, pull, train"). More at touch.
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From Middle English tukken to beat a drum from Old North French toquer to strike from Vulgar Latin toccāre
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English tukken possibly from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch tocken, tucken
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Perhaps from French dialectal étoc from Old French estoc of Germanic origin
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From Old French estoc (“rapier"), from Italian stocco (“a truncheon, a short sword")
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Old Provençal tuc (“uncooked").
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Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Compare tocsin.
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