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Definition: Tucked |
TuckedAdjective1. Having tucked or being tucked; "tightly tucked blankets"; "a fancy tucked shirt". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tucked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Antonym: untucked (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tucked |
| English words defined with "tucked": aside, away ♦ by ♦ Kilted ♦ put away ♦ sunburst, sunray ♦ tuck away, tuck in ♦ untucked. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tucked": corder, cording-machine operator ♦ Female, Friar Tuck ♦ G protein, G-protein, G-proteins, graduate tucker ♦ pleater ♦ ruching-machine operator ♦ TUCKING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | All tucked way down there. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Shouldn't you be tucked away in your beddy-bye all warm where nothing can eat you? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Because you can't just let two good nurses go on account of feeling small and insignificant. And besides, with your money, you ought to be able to keep a little man tucked away in the closet, and bring him out whenever you wanna knock him around, huh? (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken) | |
Lyrics | With a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe (Rhinestone Cowboy; performing artist: Glen Campbell; writing credit: Larry Weiss) I saw something tucked in shame underneath your pillow (BRILLIANT DISGUISE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) And to make it better, baby got the nina' Beretta tucked low (Down Ass Bitch; performing artist: Ja Rule) | |
Tongue Twisters | Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | So she tucked it away under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back to have a little more conversation with her friend. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Sleek slimy coats, little little feet tucked up to jump, black shiny eyes to look out of. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They climbed back on the load, and they avoided the long stiff figure covered and tucked in a comforter, even the head covered and tucked. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Over the past few weeks, we've all learned what was tucked away behind a little comma here and there. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tucked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 68.73% of the time. "Tucked" is used about 693 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 68.73% | 476 | 12,465 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 30.69% | 213 | 20,749 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.58% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 693 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tucked": tucked away ♦ tucked in ♦ tucked up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tucked": tucked-away, tucked-in. | |
Ending with "tucked": half-tucked, pin-tucked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
b b tucked up | 13 |
bond often their too tucked | 4 |
inn tucked | 2 |
tucked | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tucked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مطوي (bent, folded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подвит (bent, tucked in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卷起 (Coiled, Tucking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | indstikslukke (hooked lock, tucked-in closure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | insteeksluiting (hooked lock, tucked-in closure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hakasuljin (hooked lock, tucked-in closure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fermeture par pattes rentrantes (tucked-in closure), fermeture crochets (tucked-in closure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | streifte zurück. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρυμμένος (hidden, latent, tucked away), χωμένος (thrust, tucked away), διπλωτά κουτιά με κουμπώματα (hooked lock, tucked-in closure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | chiusura ad incastro (hooked lock, tucked-in closure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 懐紙 (Japanese tissue, paper used for writing tanka), 左前 (being badly off, downward course, wearing a kimono with the right side tucked under the left). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひ りまえ (being badly off, downward course, wearing a kimono with the right side tucked under the left), ふと"ろがみ (Japanese tissue, paper used for writing tanka), かいし (beginning, commencement, Japanese tissue, mysterious death, paper used for writing tanka, start, termination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 넣" (Admitted, sheathed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | walkit (fulled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uckedtay fecho por patilhas (hooked lock, tab closure, tucked-in closure). (various references) подоткнуть. (various references) cierre por patillas penetrantes (hooked lock, tucked-in closure), cierre por ganchos (hooked lock, tucked-in closure), arregazado (tucked up). (various references) insticksförslutning (hooked lock, tucked-in closure). (various references) saklanmış (tucked away), gizlenmiş (behind, concealed, disguised, hidden, lurking, perdu, Perdue, tucked away). (various references) стомливий (exhausting, fatiguing, irksome, laborious, languorous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, tucked up, weariful, wearing, weary), стиснутий (compressed, cramped, crowded, strangulated, tucked up), підтягнутий (smirk, taut, tucked up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tucked": untucked. (additional references) | |
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"Tucked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fuckee, stucked, Tucci, tuced, Tuchel, tucken, tucket, tuckit, tuxed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tucked" (pronounced tu"kt) |
| 3 | -u" k t | abduct, bucked, chucked, conduct, construct, deconstruct, deduct, destruct, ducked, duct, fucked, induct, instruct, obstruct, plucked, reconstruct, shucked, sucked, trucked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-t-u" | |
-1 letter: educt. | |
-2 letters: cued, cuke, cute, deck, duce, duck, duct, duet, duke, tuck. | |
-3 letters: cud, cue, cut, due, ecu, kue, ted, uke. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, et, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-k-t-u" | |
+1 letter: trucked. | |
+2 letters: bucketed, duckiest, truckled, tuckered, untacked, untucked. | |
+3 letters: outcooked, outkicked, outrocked, unstacked. | |
+4 letters: huckstered, outslicked, outtricked, undertrick. | |
+5 letters: bucktoothed, quarterdeck, thumbtacked, unbracketed, undertricks. | |
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