| 单词 | to earn or make one's tucker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto earn or make one's tucker 6. [ < tuck n.1 6 or tuck v.1 10.] The daily supply of food of a gold-digger or station-hand; rations, meals; also, food generally, victuals: = tuck n.1 6b to earn or make one's tucker, to earn merely enough to pay for one's keep. Australian and New Zealand slang. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] meateOE eatOE foodOE fodderOE dietc1230 gista1290 victual1303 victualsa1375 preya1382 feedinga1398 pasturea1398 viancea1400 viandsc1400 livingc1405 meatingc1425 vitalyc1440 vianda1450 cates1461 vivers1536 viandry1542 viander1543 gut-matter1549 peck1567 belly-cheer1579 appast1580 manchet1583 chat1584 belly-metal1590 repasture1598 cibaries1599 belly-timber1607 belly-cheat1608 peckage1610 victuallage1622 keeping1644 vivresa1650 crib1652 prog1655 grub1659 beef1661 fooding1663 teething1673 eatablea1687 sunket1686 yam1788 chow-chow1795 keep1801 feed1818 grubbing1819 patter1824 ninyam1826 nyam1828 grubbery1831 tack1834 kai1845 mungaree1846 scoff1846 foodstuff1847 chuck1850 muckamuck1852 tuck1857 tucker1858 hash1865 nosh1873 jock1879 cake flour1881 chow1886 nosebag1888 stodge1890 food aid1900 tackle1900 munga1907 scarf1932 grubber1959 1858 Morning Chron. 31 Aug. (Farmer) Diggers, who have great difficulty in making their tucker at digging. 1864 J. C. Richmond Let. 12 May in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) II. 111 It is very hard work humping your blankets and tucker. 1874 G. Walch Head over Heels 73 For want of more nourishing tucker, I believe they'd have eaten him. 1883 A. Forbes in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 606 A peer's son who is earning his ‘tucker’ as a station cook in New Zealand. 1898 M. Davitt Life & Progr. Australasia xl. 275 A pound of a week, including lodgings and ‘tucker’. 1911 W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush xxi. 275 If they had obtained no wages for the first six months or so, they would have obtained their ‘tucker’ free. 1972 M. Shadbolt Strangers & Journeys iii. 43 Later Ned got the tucker cooking. It was stew and spud, like most nights. < as lemmas |
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