chuck

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /t͡ʃʌk/ (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /t͡ʃʊk/ Rhymes: -ʌk === Etymology 1 === Variant of chock. ==== Noun ==== chuck (countable and uncountable, plural chucks) (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal. (US, slang, dated) Food. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder. 1824, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions, Volume 42, page 88, I have had a chuck of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required. 2003, Julie K. Petersen, “chuck”, entry in Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary, page 181, A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has chucks, they are typically either clamping chucks or vacuum chucks. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English chuk, of onomatopoeic origin, imitative of a hen's cluck. ==== Noun ==== chuck (plural chucks) (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen. A clucking sound. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment. === Etymology 3 === From Middle English chukken, from the noun (see above). ==== Verb ==== chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked) To make a clucking sound. To call, as a hen her chickens. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh. === Etymology 4 === From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck. ==== Alternative forms ==== chock (obsolete) ==== Noun ==== chuck (plural chucks) A gentle touch or tap. (informal) A casual throw. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== chuck (third-person singular simple present chucks, present participle chucking, simple past and past participle chucked) To touch or tap gently. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner. Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away. Synonyms: chuck out; see also Thesaurus:junk (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump. (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit. (intransitive, slang) To vomit. Synonyms: throw up; see also Thesaurus:regurgitate (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce. Synonyms: take off; see also Thesaurus:leave (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 5 === From woodchuck. ==== Alternative forms ==== 'chuck ==== Noun ==== chuck (plural chucks) Abbreviation of woodchuck. 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too, Field & Stream, page 50, Chucks are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. […] For some reason, my family didn′t eat ′chucks. Few families in the area did. ===== Derived terms ===== rockchuck === Etymology 6 === From chuck (“to toss”). ==== Alternative forms ==== chack (Scotland) ==== Noun ==== chuck (plural chucks) (Scotland) A small pebble. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money. ===== Synonyms ===== chuckie, chucky chuckstone, chuckiestone ===== Derived terms ===== chuckie-stone ===== Related terms ===== chucks (game played with pebbles) === Etymology 7 === Clipping of nunchuck, variant of nunchaku. ==== Noun ==== chuck (countable and uncountable, plural chucks) A pair of nunchaku, especially when using two. == Chinook Jargon == === Alternative forms === tsəqw (Grande Ronde Orthography) === Etymology === From Nootka č̕aʔak (“water”). === Noun === chuck water ==== Descendants ==== tumchuck saltchuck