tucat

== Hungarian == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Dutzend, from Middle High German tozen via tutzet, dutzet. First attested in 1579. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈtut͡sɒt] Hyphenation: tu‧cat Rhymes: -ɒt === Noun === tucat (plural tucatok) dozen (a set of twelve) Synonym: tizenkettő A zsemléből vettünk egy tucatot a vendégeknek. ― We bought a dozen of the buns for the guests. (colloquial) dozens, many (a large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred) Synonyms: sok, jó néhány ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === tucat in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.