to tucker out
7
7.7
- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
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- During quiet times, when they were all tuckered out, he and his siblings basked in the sun or by the fireplace while their mother bathed them with saliva.
- look tuckered out
- so tuckered out
- just tuckered out
Examples
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"I'd ask you along, but you look plum tuckered out."
Fiction book (1993) -
Well, he's tuckered out from the fight.
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Your man looked tuckered out, -
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Last night I was so tuckered out I was sleeping and sleeping.
Fiction book (1990) -
In our house, we also find that if we provide our dog with a really good exercise session before guests arrive, he usually manages to get tuckered out.
Blog text (10) -
While I was a little tuckered out at the end, it was great meeting all of you and getting to hear some cool authors chat about writing what they love and loving what they write!
Blog text (17) -
It looks like Toxie's really tuckered out.
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If you're tuckered out, too, we'll be wasting everybody's time.
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I'm plumb tuckered out from all that work... work... chopping.
Fiction book (2001) -
After running around the park with the kids, I was completely tuckered out by the end of the afternoon.
Synonyms
194
3.2
To make someone very tired
64
6.0
To make someone very tired
23
1.0
To become very tired or make someone very tired
19
2.7
To make a person very tired or a thing stop working by using it too much
11
4.6
To make someone very tired by hard work or long effort
10
2.1
To make a person very tired by using up their energy
8
9.4
To make someone very tired
4
4.4
To make someone or yourself very tired after long effort
3
6.8
To make someone very tired by doing too much
2
6.3
To make someone very tired by giving them too much to do
1
8.6
To make someone feel very tired, weak, or sad
To make someone very busy and tired with too much work
To make someone very sleepy from too much activity
To make someone very tired so they cannot work or think well
Antonyms
How Tired
Surface Forms
Morphology
tucker + out
The verb 'tucker' (to cause tiredness) combined with the particle 'out' (indicating completion/intensification) yields a meaning that is directly compositional: to exhaust completely. This follows a common verb+particle pattern that a B1 learner who knows both constituents would be able to infer.
Etymology
The phrase tucker out likely comes from old British and Australian slang where tucker meant 'food'. After a big meal people often felt sleepy or weak, so being tuckered out came to mean 'very tired'.