Rucks vs Recks - What's the difference?
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(ruck)
A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
*1873 , (Anthony Trollope), Phineas Redux ,
*:Dandolo was constantly in the ditch, sometimes lying with his side against the bank, and had now been so hustled and driven that, had he been on the other side, he would have had no breath left to carry his rider, even in the ruck of the hunt.
*1914 , (Booth Tarkington), Penrod ,
*:At last, out of the ruck rose Verman, disfigured and maniacal. With a wild eye he looked about him for his trusty rake; but Penrod, in horror, had long since thrown the rake out into the yard.
(Australian Rules Football) Contesting a bounce or ball up; used appositionally in "ruck contest". Rucks also used collectively either of ruckmen or of ruckmen and ruck rovers, and occasionally used in place of "followers" (including rovers too).
(rugby union) The situation formed when a runner is brought to ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
The common mass (of) people or things; the ordinary ranks.
*1874 , (Thomas Hardy),
*:"He is well born." "His being higher in learning and birth than the ruck o' soldiers is anything but a proof of his worth. It shows his course to be down'ard."
*1911 , (Saki), ‘Tobermory’, The Chronicles of Clovis :
*:‘Here and there among cats one comes across an outstanding superior intellect, just as one does among the ruck of human beings [...].’
(obsolete) To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football.
To contest the possession of the ball in a game of Rugby.
To crease or fold.
To become folded.
* 1917' ''"Will you come over now and try on your dress?" Ally asked, looking at her with wistful admiration. "I want to be sure the sleeves don't '''ruck up the same as they did yesterday."'' — Edith Wharton, ''Summer ,
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
(reck)
To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Burns
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
*
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To care; to matter.
* 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
* 1900 , , Villanelle of Marguerite's , lines 10-11
*:She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
*:With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair
To concern, to be important
* Milton
(obsolete) To think.
As verbs the difference between rucks and recks
is that rucks is third-person singular of ruck while recks is third-person singular of reck.rucks
English
Verb
(head)ruck
English
(wikipedia ruck)Etymology 1
(etyl) rukeNoun
(en noun)Chapter 16:
Chapter 23:
Far from the Madding Crowd:
See also
* maul * scrumVerb
(en verb)Etymology 2
1780, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)Chapter 12.
Etymology 3
Compare (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- (Gower)
- (South)
Etymology 4
recks
English
Verb
(head)reck
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- this son of mine not recking danger
- And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
- Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
- Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
- Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
- Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
- It recks not!
- What recks it them?