Tuck-in

Definition

tuck /tʌk/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth into sth ; ~ sth in/ up (အက်ႌ၊ ေဘာင္းဘီ ေအာက္နားစ စသည္) ထိုးသိမ္းသည္၊ ထည့္သည္၊ သြင္းသည္။ (စကၠဴေခါက္၊ အိပ္ရာခင္း စသည္) ေခါက္သြင္းသည္။ Tuck your jeans into your boots. ❍ tuck one's shirt in (eg into one's trousers) ❍ She tucked up her skirt and waded into the river. ❍ The sheets were tucked in neatly (ie around the bed). ❍ tuck the flap of an envelope in. (ခ) လွ်ဳိသြင္းသည္။ သိမ္းသည္ (သို႔) တင္ပါးလႊဲ၊ တင္ပ်ဥ္ေခြ ထိုင္သည္။ The nurse tucked her hair (up) under her cap. ❍ He sat with his legs tucked (up) under him. ၂။ လွ်ဳိသြင္းသည္။ လွ်ဳိသည္။ သိမ္းသည္။ The hen tucked its head under its wing. ❍ He tucked the map away in a drawer. ၃။ ပတ္သည္။ ၿခံဳသည္။ tuck a blanket round sb's knees/ legs. n ၁။ [C] အတြန္႔။ အေခါက္။ The dress was slightly too big so I took a tuck in the waist. ၂။ [U] ( dated Brit infml ) မုန္႔(ဆိုင္)။ a school tuck shop. ❏ tuck sth away [ PHRV ]( infml esp Brit ) (အပင္း) လွ်ဳိသည္၊ ဆို႔သည္။ ❏ tuck sth/ oneself away [ PHRV ] ( infml ) လွ်ဳိထားသည္။ ဝွက္ထားသည္။ ေအာင္းသည္။ He's got a fortune tucked away in a Swiss bank account. ❍ The farm was tucked away in the hills. ❍ She likes to tuck herself away in her room for hours. ❏ tuck-in n (usu sing ) ( Brit infml ) စားပြဲေသာက္ပြဲ။ ေလြးခ်ဳိင္ခ်က္။ have a good tuck-in. ❏ tuck into sth/ in [ PHRV ] ( infml esp Brit ) အားရပါးရ စားသည္။ ေလြးသည္။ He was tucking into a large plate of spaghetti. ❍ Come on, tuck in, everybody! ❏ tuck sb in/ up [ PHRV ] (ေစာင္စသည္ျဖင့္) ပတ္ေပးသည္၊ ၿခံဳေပးသည္။ The children are all safely tucked up (in bed).

Examples

1. [tuck something behind/into/under something] : She tucked her glasses in her pocket.
2. He had a newspaper tucked under his arm.
3. Keep your elbows tucked firmly into your sides.
4. I’ve been thinking about having my tummy tucked.