tucker
/ˈtʌkə/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈtʌkə/
tucker
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- Final r is pronounced in US English
tuc - ker -> tucker
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘For thousands of years bush tucker was the only food eaten in Australia - food that hopped, crawled, slithered or grew in a land populated entirely by indigenous people.’
- ‘Is your research suggesting that land management, spending more time in the bush, eating bush tucker, is a serious health strategy that could really make a difference?’
- ‘And classic Aussie tucker isn't forgotten either, if this is what you're after it's worth heading to the Roadkill cafe, a favourite with international visitors!’
- ‘The day will feature informal workshops on face painting and wool weaving, information displays, kids activities and a BBQ of traditional tucker.’
- ‘The second kind of food, bush tucker, is not as readily available.’
- ‘The term tucker presumably developed because they were at first loosely tucked in to the bodice of the dress.’
- ‘The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of human nature.’
- ‘You can imagine that this leaves me somewhat tuckered out at the end of a given day.’
- ‘Once he is tuckered out his opponent will take over and win easily.’
- ‘Working women are more likely than their male colleagues to be tuckered out when they get home.’
- ‘Hearing the sound of snoring, she turned around and saw that Robert had fallen asleep, having tuckered himself out from all the excitement.’
- ‘At the two hour mark I was really getting pretty tuckered out, and began making silly mistakes.’
- ‘The two of them were so tuckered out it didn't take much.’
- ‘‘Well, we are tuckered out and couldn't figure out which bus take, ’ I said.’
- ‘By late Sunday afternoon, it had started to rain, and many of us were pretty tuckered out, so this work didn't proceed as rapidly as we had hoped.’
- ‘Toward the end of the movie, though, even they were worn out; plum tuckered by the endless repetition.’
- ‘After half an hour of this, he was tuckered out and wandered off.’
- ‘‘She had a big day at her great-grandma's birthday party, and she's pretty tuckered out, ’ Miranda said.’
- ‘After the celebration, at midnight, everybody was all tuckered out and one by one, went off to bed.’
- ‘Victoria noted this uncharacteristic compliance, and asked, ‘Are you all tuckered out, sweetie?’’
Synonyms
bankrupt, be disregarded, be neglected, bedraggle, brood, burn out, bush, chow, conk out, cripple, debilitate, decline, deplete, desire, despond, deteriorate, die on vine, disable, do in, drain, draw, droop, drop, dwindle, ebb, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, fade, fag, fag out, fail, faint, fatigue, fizzle, fizzle out, flag, food, fray, frazzle, go soft, go to pieces, grieve, grub, hanker, hunger, impoverish, jade, knock out, languish, listless, long, nosh, overdo, overexert, overextend, overfatigue, overtire, overwork, peter out, pine, poop, poop out, prostrate, repine, rip, rot, run ragged, sag, sap, shred, sicken, sigh, sink, snivel, sorrow, succumb, suck dry, suffer, take, take it out of, tear, tire, tire out, tuck, use up, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear down, wear out, weary, wilt, wither, yearn
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