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Tucker

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Food. “A tuck in,” a cram of food. (See above.)

“‘No,ʹ said Palliser, ‘weʹve no food.ʹ ‘By Jove!ʹ said the other, ‘Iʹll search creation for tucker to-night. Give me your gun.ʹ”—Watson: The Web of the Spider, chap. xii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Tu Autem
Tu las Voulu, George Dandin
Tu Queque
Tu-ral-lu
Tub
Tub, Tubbing
Tub-woman (A)
Tuba [happiness]
Tuck
Tucker
Tuffet (A)
Tuft
Tuft-hunter
Tug
Tug of War (The)
Tuileries (Paris) [tile-kilns]
Tulcan Bishops
Tulip
Tulip Mania
Tumbledown Dick