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Webster 1913 Edition
Tucker
Tuck′er
,Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
2.
A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman’s dress in the 17th century and later.
Tuck′er
,Verb.
T.
To tire; to weary; – usually with
out
. [Colloq. U. S.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Tucker
TUCK'ER
,Noun.
1.
A fuller, whence the name. [Local.]Definition 2024
Tucker
Tucker
See also: tucker
English
Proper noun
Tucker
- A south-western English occupational surname; equivalent to Fuller.
- A male given name, modern transferred use of the surname.
tucker
tucker
See also: Tucker
English
Verb
tucker (third-person singular simple present tuckers, present participle tuckering, simple past and past participle tuckered)
- To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
Derived terms
Noun
tucker (plural tucker)
- (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.
- Nature of Grievance:
- 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,
- (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
Translations
slang: food — see grub
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Middle English tokker (“one who dresses or finishes cloth”)
Noun
tucker (plural tuckers)
- (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.”
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, unnumbered page,
- (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.