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Tuck Away

Definition: Tuck Away

Tuck Away

Verb

1. Eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food; "My son tucked in a whole pizza".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Tuck Away

Synonyms: put away (v), tuck in (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Tuck Away

Language Translations for "tuck away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

укривам (compound, hide, plant, secrete, smuggle away), скривам (cache, conceal, dissemble, enshroud, hide, hoard, hold back, obscure, plant, put back, screen, secrete, sink, stash, sweep under the carpet, veil), ям (consume, discuss, eat, feed, have, mouth, partake, punish, take, taste, victual), нагъвам (cockle, corrugate, flex, fold, gobble, lap, punish, put away, ruckle, scoff, tuck into, walk into, wolf). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

eltesz (put aside, put away, put down, set aside, to conserve, to pigeonhole, to put away, to put down, to stow, to take away, to tuck away), elrak (Stow, to bottle, to put up, to set apart, to stow, to tuck away, tuck in), berak (embed, inlay, plait, stevedore, to damascene, to inlay, to kilt, to pleat, to stevedore, to stow, to tuck away, tuck). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nascondere (be hidden, blind, block, cache, cloak, conceal, encryption, ensconce, hide, mask, obscure, occult, occuring, pocket, screen, secrete, shroud, withhold). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

仕舞い込む (to hoard, to put away, to stow away, to tuck away). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しまい"む (to hoard, to put away, to stow away, to tuck away). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ucktay awayay

   

Romanian

  

scurta o hainã, ascunde (cloak, conceal, Cork, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, ensconce, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put away, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck, veil, wrap). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zampar (polish off, stuff away, walk in), ocultar (blot out, blur out, Bury, cache, cloak, conceal, cover, dissemble, fade, Harbor, harbour, hide, hide away, hold back, hold out, keep back, keep from, mask, occult, secrete, shroud, slur, slur over), esconder (cache, conceal, encryption, ensconce, Harbor, harbour, hide, hide away, obscure, occuring), devorar a (down, hog, prey on), comer (comic, eat, eat away, feed, have dinner, lap up, live off, live on, lunch, luncheon, meal, partake of, take, take a meal, to eat, trifle, tuck, tuck in). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tıka basa doldurmak (choke up, clutter, clutter up, cram, encumber, glut, gorge, pack, Stoke), saklamak (blind, Bury, cloak, conceal, disguise, enshrine, harvest, hide, hold back, keep back, keep smth. quiet, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, lay down, obscure, plant, put by, put out of sight, screen, secrete, shelter, stash, stash away, stow away, suffuse), gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, enshroud, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep back, keep from, keep in dark, keep in one's bosom, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, mask, obscure, plant, pocket, screen, secrete, sheathe, shroud, sweep under the carpet, veil). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

їсти (eat, meal, nosh), уминати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tuck Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-k-t-u-w-y"

-1 letter: cutaway.

-3 letters: tacky, wacky.

-4 letters: acta, away, caky, kata, kyat, tack, taka, tuck, wack, wauk, yack, yuca, yuck.

-5 letters: act, auk, awa, cat, caw, cay, cut, kat, kay, tau, taw, twa, uta, wat, way, yak, yaw, yuk.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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