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« Reply #690 on: April 21, 2025, 09:09:03 pm »
I am curious how a Tucker equates to food ?
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Re: Some humour from around the World
« Reply #691 on: April 21, 2025, 11:57:09 pm »
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I am curious how a Tucker equates to food ?

Not sure Bruce, just a word that I've grown up with so it sounds natural to me.

Google says -

"This is some great Aussie slang for food that has been in constant use since the 1850s. The original meaning is of a meal, that is, something to be tucked away (in the stomach)".

Whether they nailed it....not sure, could be a furphy.
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« Reply #692 on: April 22, 2025, 09:34:48 am »
My BIG (5" thick) Webster's dictionary of the English language does list: Tucker = Food (Australian Slang), as the 5th usage.

My smaller (half as thick) Webster's New World dictionary of the American language does not make that listing.

Somewhere, or somehow, I have come across that usage before, so it is understandable to me, though I don't believe I've ever used it myself.

I think from my memory it was, Tucker = Provisions, to mean Food!?!?

Once again, we see that we are two peoples, separated by a common language ......   ;c)
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Re: Some humour from around the World
« Reply #697 on: May 02, 2025, 12:28:13 am »
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Re: Some humour from around the World
« Reply #702 on: May 02, 2025, 07:22:18 pm »
Quote from: Jim on April 21, 2025, 11:57:09 pm
Quote from: St Paul Steam on April 21, 2025, 09:09:03 pm
I am curious how a Tucker equates to food ?

Not sure Bruce, just a word that I've grown up with so it sounds natural to me.

Google says -

"This is some great Aussie slang for food that has been in constant use since the 1850s. The original meaning is of a meal, that is, something to be tucked away (in the stomach)".

Whether they nailed it....not sure, could be a furphy.

I know this is a rather farfetched reach, but we used to bring in food and supplies to the Research Station, when the road was closed to snow, using a Tucker Snow Cat, as long as the lower part of the road was still open. If not, everything including us, was brought in by helicopter!
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Re: Some humour from around the World
« Reply #703 on: May 02, 2025, 08:19:57 pm »
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Re: Some humour from around the World
« Reply #704 on: May 02, 2025, 11:59:45 pm »
Quote from: Stoker on May 02, 2025, 08:19:57 pm
Quote from: Nick on May 02, 2025, 07:16:45 pm
Quote from: Jim on May 02, 2025, 07:00:37 pm
Quote from: St Paul Steam on May 02, 2025, 06:02:27 pm
Quote from: Jim on May 01, 2025, 10:49:34 pm
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Hilarious!
Even better that it came from June Cleaver 😂

Nick, I wouldn't think you were old enough to know that!?!?

Must have been old reruns you were watching!

Haha even Airplane is quite a bit older than me, but seen it many times :D

Spent many summers at the lake with my grandma watching tv land every night, Beverly Hillbillies is still one of my favorite shows.
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