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Chuukese
Verb
tuken
- to swim
Middle English
- tuk, tuke, tukke, tukken, tukki, tucken, touken, tokken
- tuki, tukie, tuc, toke (Early Middle English, Southwestern, southwest Midlands)
Etymology
From Old English tucian (“to mistreat; to torment”) and Middle Dutch, Middle Low German tucken, all from Proto-Germanic *tukkōną (“to tug; to grab; to grasp”). Doublet of touchen.
Pronunciation
Verb
tuken (third-person singular simple present tuks, present participle tukende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tukked)
- to abuse, mistreat
- to plunder
- to tuck (gather up fabric)
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