tucker

I will take my French mastiff Rosie for a hike at Fryman Canyon to tucker her out for the day and also just feel like I moved on a Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

"Goannas are significant cultural totems for Traditional Owners across northern Australia, and an important bush tucker food," Dr Ward-Fear says.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024

It will include a BBQ with traditional bush tucker and the raising of Australian and Aboriginal flags to welcome new citizens.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024

The duchess joked that she thought she was "in trouble" and that they were going to make her do one of their "tucker trials."

From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021

“Gods, I’m exhausted. There’s nothing like the certain knowledge of your own death to tucker you out.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

In their best bibs and tuckers, Hollywood's finest lined up with Britain's luvvie elite to tussle over, to quote Billy Connolly, "a death mask on a stick".

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013

Gonzalez Videla's old ambassadorial friend from Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, the vice presidents from Argentina, Peru and Brazil all turned up in their best bibs & tuckers.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And, ma’am,” he continued, “the laundress tells me some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules limit them to one.”

From Jane Eyre by F. H. Townsend

When they are invited by the older members of the family, it is time to put on their "best bibs and tuckers."

From Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. by Sarah Annie Frost

Snowy "tuckers" of crimped muslin were sewn into the neck and wrists of her gown, and she wore an apron with a bib; an old-fashioned apron, guiltless of bows or lace.

From Under the Mendips A Tale by Emma Marshall

Labs are happiest in an active household, but when they’re tuckered out, prepare yourself for a cuddle fest — and to be amazed at how much space one dog can take up in your bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

Other than everybody just getting tuckered out — perpetual conflict can be exhausting — the reality is that Sawant has always been more story than substance.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2023

Their group almost included that linebacker of golf, Bryson DeChambeau, who joined seven others at 3-under 67, and whose mighty swings finally subdued his tuckered driver of one year-plus.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2020

She is exhausting and exhilarating to observe, and she must be truly tuckered out after each performance.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2015

I don’t work nowhere near as hard as Mr. Leroy, but that don’t matter, I was good and tuckered out.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

There, in the half-shade, he saw the horse standing, the sunshine and the tuckering shadow of leaves dancing over his brown body.

From The Prussian Officer by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I wuz most melted too, for St. Louis weather is tuckering to them that can't stand heat.

From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

Presently, however, they slowed down to a "dog trot" at the suggestion of Clifford Long, who warned his fellow Scouts against "tuckering themselves out."

From Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds by Stella M. Francis