chuck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. countable,uncountable
    — Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
  2. A pair of nunchaku, especially when using two. countable,uncountable
  3. A small pebble. Scotland
  4. A chicken, a hen. dialectal,obsolete
  5. Abbreviation of woodchuck. abbreviation,alt-of
    — 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too, Field & Stream, page 50, Chucks are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. […] For some reason, my family didn′t eat ′chucks. Few families in the area did.
  6. A gentle touch or tap.
    — She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
  7. Food. US,countable,dated,slang,uncountable
    — “Hambone, how's for chuck?” Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.”
  8. Money. Scotland,in-plural,obsolete,slang
  9. A casual throw. informal
  10. A clucking sound.
    — The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain chucks in preference to calls that contain no chucks.
  11. A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment. slang
    — Are you all right, chuck?
  12. A throw, an incorrect bowling action. informal
  13. A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder. countable,uncountable
    — 1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, page 88, I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
  14. An act or instance of vomiting. slang
  15. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
动词 v.
  1. To make a clucking sound.
  2. To touch or tap gently.
    — [Y]ou look now as you did before we were married—when you used to walk with me under the Elms, and tell me stories of what a Gallant you were in your youth—and chuck me under the chin you would—and ask me if I thought I could love an old Fellow who would deny me nothing—didn't you?
  3. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
  4. To call, as a hen her chickens.
    — Then crowing clapped his wing, th'appointed call To chuck his wives together in the hall.
  5. To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner. informal,transitive
    — Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
  6. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
  7. To chuckle; to laugh. obsolete
    — Who would not chuck to see such pleasing sport. To see such troupes of gallants still resort unto Cornutos shop.
  8. To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action. intransitive
  9. To discard, to throw away. informal,transitive
    — This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.
  10. To jilt; to dump. informal,transitive
    — She's chucked me for another man!
  11. To give up; to stop doing; to quit. dated,informal,transitive
    — "When he got religion old Joe stuck every penny away in the Savings Bank, and when he chucked religion he'd draw out the lot and go on a bender that landed him in the horrors, like as not."
  12. To vomit. intransitive,slang
  13. To leave; to depart; to bounce. South-Africa,intransitive,slang
    — Let's chuck.
  14. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
chuckie chucky chuckstone chuckiestone
衍生词
chuckable chuckhole chuck it chuck it in chuck it up chuck key chuck over chuck rib chuck steak chuck wagon fork chuck universal chuck chuck a charley chuck a dummy chuck-a-luck chuck and toss chuck a sickie chuck a spaz chuck a uey chuck away chuck a wobbly chuck down chucker chuck-farthing chuck-in chuck in chuck it down chuck off chuck one's toys out of the cot chuck one's toys out of the pram chuck out chuck the deuces chuck up fuck and chuck upchuck chuckie-stone
相关词
chucks

词源

词源 1
Variant of chock.
词源 2
From Middle English chuk, of onomatopoeic origin, imitative of a hen's cluck.
词源 3
From Middle English chukken, from the noun (see above).
词源 4
From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck.
词源 5
From woodchuck.
词源 6
From chuck (“to toss”).
词源 7
Clipping of nunchuck, variant of nunchaku.
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