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Antonyms for tuck

Grammar : Verb
Spell : tuhk
Phonetic Transcription : tʌk


Definition of tuck

Origin :
  • late 14c., "to pull or gather up," earlier "to pluck, stretch" (late 13c., implied in tucker), probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch tucken "pull up, draw up, tug" (cognate with Old English tucian "mistreat, torment," and related to Old English togian "to pull," German zucken; see tow). Sense of "thrust into a snug place" is first recorded 1580s. Slang meaning "to consume, swallow" is recorded from 1784. The noun is first attested late 14c.
  • verb fold together
Example sentences :
  • Let it go and tuck in your handkerchief like the rest of us.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The skirt was long enough to tuck around her baby's feet when she carried it.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Why, Tuck, dost thou not know of my ill happening with my father's steward?
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • When I tuck him up, he grabbed me round the neck and dug his little face into mine.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • You can tuck up the sleeves, and we will catch crayfishes again.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • They saw him tuck her carefully in and then stoop and kiss her.
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • A bat does not perch, and tuck his head under his wing, and sleep like a bird.
  • Extract from : « Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad » by Various
  • What that kid needs is for her home folks to tuck her up in bed an' send her to sleep.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • Tuck did not know that Pete Harding was not at present in charge of the sheep.
  • Extract from : « The Wrong Woman » by Charles D. Stewart
  • How could Tuck Reedy tell she was alone just by the light of the fire?
  • Extract from : « The Wrong Woman » by Charles D. Stewart

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