Tucker meaning

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tuckered tuckers
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One that tucks, especially an attachment on a sewing machine for making tucks.
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A piece of linen or frill of lace formerly worn by women around the neck and shoulders.
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To make weary; exhaust. Usually used with out.
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A person or device that makes tucks.
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Food.
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To tire (out); weary.
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To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
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(countable) One who or that which tucks.
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(uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
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(countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
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A south-western English occupational surname; equivalent to Fuller.
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A male given name, modern transferred use of the surname.
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Origin of tucker

  • Perhaps from tuck

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English tokker (“one who dresses or finishes cloth")

    From Wiktionary

  • tuck +"Ž -er

    From Wiktionary

Tucker Sentence Examples

  • Tucker, The English Church in Other Lands (London, 1886); A.

  • "Every man's own satisfaction" Tucker holds to be the ultimate end of action; and satisfaction or pleasure is one and the same in kind, however much it may vary in degree.

  • It owes its name either to its early paper and grist mills (Milton being abbreviated from Milltown) or to Milton Abbey, Dorset, whence members of the Tucker family came, it is supposed, to Milton about 1662.

  • A biography of her by Mr Booth Tucker appeared in 1892.

  • In 1736 Tucker married Dorothy, the daughter of Edward Barker of East Betchworth, cursitor baron of the exchequer.

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