Buck vs Tuck - What's the difference?
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A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
(British, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
* 1808 , (editor), The Connoisseur'', ''The British Essayists , Volume 32,
* 1825 , , I Zingari'', ''The English in Italy , Volume II,
(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
(US, Australia, NZ, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
(South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
(by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money
(US, slang) One hundred.
(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
(US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
(UK, dialect) The body of a post mill]], particularly in . See Wikipedia:[[w:Mill_machinery#Windmill_machinery, Windmill machinery.
(finance, jargon) One million dollars.
(informal) A euro
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
To bend; buckle.
To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
* 1849 , Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy'', William Carron, ''Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy ,
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
* W. E. Norris
(military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
(by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
(by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
(by extension) To overcome or shed (, an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: .
(forestry) To saw a tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
(Webster 1913)
(lb) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
(lb) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
(lb) To fit neatly.
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To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
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To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
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To full, as cloth.
To conceal one’s genitals, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
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(lb) To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
An act of tucking ; a pleat or fold.
(sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
A curled position.
(medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
(music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) 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.
(diving) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
(archaic) A rapier, a sword.
* 1663 , (Hudibras) , by (Samuel Butler), part 1,
* Sir Walter Scott
Food, especially snack food.
As nouns the difference between buck and tuck
is that buck is a male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad while tuck is an act of tucking; a pleat or fold.As verbs the difference between buck and tuck
is that buck is to copulate, as bucks and does while tuck is to pull or gather up (an item of fabric).As a proper noun Buck
is {{surname}.buck
English
(wikipedia buck)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (buc), bucke, bukke, from (etyl) buc, bucc, ). Sense 6 is from mid 19th century, but of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)page 93,
- This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck .
page 153,
- The Captain was then a buck and dandy, during the reign of those two successive dynasties, of the first rank of the second order ; the characteristic of which very respectable rank of fashionables I hold to be, that their spurs impinge upon the pavement oftener than upon the sides of a horse.
- Can I borrow five bucks ?
- Corporations will do anything to make a buck
- The police caught me driving a buck -forty on the freeway.
- That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter.
- pass the buck''; ''the buck stops here
Synonyms
* (male deer) stag * (male goat) billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat * (male ferret) hob, hob-ferret * (ram) ram, tup * bill, bone, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single, smackeroo * (item that indicates dealer in poker) button, dealer buttonDerived terms
* buckskin * crossbuck * young buck * pass the buck, buck-passing, the buck stops here * sawbuck (not descended from buck , but clearly influenced by) * buck naked (origin uncertain)See also
* doe, doeling, ewe, gill, jill, nanny, nanny-goat, she-goatEtymology 2
From (etyl) . See above. Compare (bow).Verb
(en verb)2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121,
- At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp.
- The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
- The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.
- The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
- The plane bucked a strong headwind.
- Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
- John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.
Derived terms
* bucker * buck up * buck for * bucking bronco * buck the trendEtymology 3
See beech.Derived terms
* buckmast, buck-mastEtymology 4
Noun
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Verb
(en verb)tuck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at touch.Verb
(en verb)Antonyms
* untuckDerived terms
* tuck away * tuck in * tuck into * nip and tuckNoun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- [...] 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 [...]
- (Shakespeare)
- He wore large hose, and a tuck , as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.