tuck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of tucking; a pleat or fold. countable,uncountable
  2. The beat of a drum.
  3. A rapier, a sword. archaic
    — […] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck […]
  4. A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece. countable,uncountable
  5. A curled position. countable,uncountable
  6. A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin. countable,uncountable
    — tummy tuck
  7. The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb. countable,uncountable
  8. A curled position, with the shins held towards the body. countable,uncountable
  9. The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail. countable,uncountable
  10. Food, especially snack food. India,UK,dated,uncountable
    — 'What on earth do Coker and his parcel of tuck matter to us? You're not thinking of snooping his tuck, I suppose, like Bunter.'
动词 v.
  1. To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). transitive
  2. To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe, or handy, or somewhat hidden. transitive
    — Tuck in your shirt.  I tucked in the sheet.  He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket.
  3. To eat; to consume. intransitive,often
  4. To fit neatly. ergative
    — The sofa tucks nicely into that corner.
  5. To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
    — The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.
  6. To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
    — to tuck a dress
  7. To full, as cloth.
  8. Of a drag queen, trans woman, etc., to conceal one's penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape. ambitransitive
    — Honey, have you tucked today? We don't wanna see anything nasty down there.
  9. To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing piano keys that are outside the thumb (when playing scales).
  10. Ellipsis of Mach tuck. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — Never take a first-generation Learjet past Mach 0.82; it'll tuck hard nose-down and you won't be able to pull out from the dive.

词形变化

tucks present,singular,third-person tucking participle,present tucked participle,past tucked past tucks plural tucks plural tucks plural

词汇关系

反义词
untuck
衍生词
Mach tuck nip and tuck retuck tuckable tuckaway tuck away tuck in tuck into tuck out tuckup French tuck pintuck puck tuck box tucker tuck-in tuck-out tuck pointing tuck shop tuck up tummy tuck
相关词
tucker

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.
词源 2
From Old French estoc (“rapier”), from Italian stocco (“a truncheon, a short sword”). Doublet of estoc.
词源 3
Compare tocsin.
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