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What is tuckered out?
That kid is tuckered out.
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Tuckered out - what is it?
term for exhausted that originates from the "Deep South" during the Civil War to the beginning and middle of the 20th Century.
Man, ohh, man! After working for twelve hours today, I feel so plum tuckered out.
What does "tuckered out" mean?
Exhausted.
Origin:
It's no surprise that 'tuckered out' is an American phrase. No 'B-feature' western from the 1930s and 1940s was complete without Gabby Hayes being 'plumb tuckered out'. Hayes' contribution to the genre was celebrated by Mel Brooks in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles. In that, a look-alike actor played the part of Gabby Johnson, spouting 'authentic frontier gibberish' - "dad gum it, I am gonna die here an' no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me biscuit cutter".
An example is from the Wisconsin Enquirer, April 1839:
"I reckoned to have got to the tavern by sundown, but I haven't - as I'm prodigiously tuckered out."
'Plumb tuckered out' is somewhat later and the first example is from the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, February 1889: "They'll get plumb tuckered out waitin."
The actual derivation of this phrase is quite prosaic. 'Tucker' is a colloquial New England word, coined in the early 19th century, meaning 'to tire' or 'to become weary'. 'Tuckered out' is just a straightforward use of that. 'Plumb' is just an intensifier. 'Tuckered out' is rarely seen alone.
"I've been on my feet all day long, I'm plumb tuckered out!"
Tuckered out - what does it mean?
(1)To give up after 2/3 completion.
(2)To abandon your teammates in the middle of a project.
"We need to finish this project before tomorrow; you can't tucker out on us."
Tuckered out - meaning
Derived from the colloguial New England English word "tucker" of the 19th Century.
To "tucker" is to exhuast and to be "tuckered out" is to be exhausted.
I didn't get back from the bars 'til three o'clock in the morning and today I'm plumb tuckered out.
Tuckered out - definition
to be tired. also to be excited in a monotone for your wife/girlfriend or husband/boyfriend.
haley and austin were tuckered out after mini golf and boling with lexi and mason and haley and austin later played with tucker and kiwi there dogs...
Tuckered out - slang
When you are too tired to have sexual relations
Gee whiz johnny, i had to work at starbucks at 5:30 this morning and im too tuckered out to be penetrated