Talk:tuck
Latest comment: 10 years ago by -sche in topic tuck
Moved from w:Tuck; perhaps already adequately covered here, perhaps not:
- In sewing, a narrow pleat, usually sewn flat, used to gather fullness, shorten a garment, or as decoration.
- In gymnastics, a position in which the gymnast is curled into a ball, knees to chest.
- A slang word in the UK for food; see tuck shop
- A type of European sword - see Estoc
(That's w:Estoc, of course; sorry, don't know the proper markup for that & wp:Tuck.)
--User:Jerzy·t 15:28 & 20:52, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
RFD (etymology)[edit]
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Etymology 2 is redundant to Etymology 1 noun sense 4 (Both are "snack food. Derived from the expression "to tuck in to one's food" meaning "to eat up", "to guzzle".") One needs to go. But which? Smurrayinchester (talk) 22:51, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- I’d delete the one in Etymology 1. — Ungoliant (Falai) 22:59, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- In my boldness, I've merged the etyms. The "eat" sense seems to derive from "push into a snug position." (See also etymonline.) — Pingkudimmi 09:35, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
- Resolved, it seems. - -sche (discuss) 04:13, 28 December 2013 (UTC)