tucker

tuck·er

a person or device that makes tucks
1. a neck and shoulder covering worn with a low-cut bodice by women in the 17th and 18th cent.
2. later, a detachable collar or chemisette of thin muslin, etc.
Origin of tucker
see tuck in (sense ) at tuck
Austral., Slang food

Origin of tucker

Middle English toukere, person who dresses cloth stretched on tenterhooks from touken: see tuck

Informal to tire (out); weary

Origin of tucker

probably from tuck, in obsolete sense “to punish, rebuke”

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tucker

noun

One that tucks, especially an attachment on a sewing machine for making tucks.
A piece of linen or frill of lace formerly worn by women around the neck and shoulders.
Chiefly Australian Food.

transitive verb

tuck·ered, tuck·er·ing, tuck·ers Informal

To make weary; exhaust. Usually used with out.

Origin of tucker

Perhaps from tuck ¹

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present tuckers, present participle tuckering, simple past and past participle tuckered)

To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.

Noun

(plural tucker)

(countable) One who or that which tucks.
(uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.

Origin

tuck +"Ž -er

Noun

(plural tuckers)

(countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.

Origin

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

Proper noun

A south-western English occupational surname; equivalent to Fuller.
A male given name, modern transferred use of the surname.

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