huckepack

== German == === Etymology === Borrowed from Low German Huckeback, as in enen up’n Huckeback nömen (literally “to take someone on one’s piggyback”). The first component is cognate with German Hucke (“load, burden”) or a related verb hucken (“to carry a load”). The second component is from Middle Low German bak (“back”) by the consensus of the etymological standard literature. The component -back was associated with Pack (“pack, package”) when the word spread southward, since Back was exclusively a Low German word (gradually going out of use even there). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhʊkəˌpak/ === Adverb === huckepack carried on someone’s back (particularly another person); piggyback === Further reading === “huckepack” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “huckepack” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon