tucker
verbenomnomcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈtʌkə//
- Royaume-Uni/[ˈtʰʌkə]/
- États-Unis//ˈtʌkɚ//
- États-Unis/[ˈtʰʌkɚ]/
To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
verbe
- 1
argotTo tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.
Étymologie
From tuck + -er.
nom
- 1
One who or that which tucks.
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
Food; tuck.
By the fire the billies were boiling, the tucker of both camps spread out on tarpaulins.
- 3
vieilliWork that scarcely yields a living wage.
nom
- 1
Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
“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.”
“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
obsolèteA fuller; one who fulls cloth.
Étymologie
Inherited from Middle English tukere (“one who dresses or finishes cloth”).
Formes
- pluriel
- tuckers
- passé
- tuckered
- participe passé
- tuckered
- participe présent
- tuckering
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- tuckers
tucker · To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
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