# huck
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hʌk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /hʊk/
* Rhymes: -ʌk

### Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.

#### Verb

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)
* (transitive, informal) To throw or chuck.
    Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
    He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.
** 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:So I came up with this plan for Blooey to hit that weak spot! All you, man,!" I said. I waited for a pause in the statue's movements and hucked Blooey up there! And bull's-eye!
** 2008, Stephen King, A Very Tight Place:Mostly these portable toilets are just thin molded plastic […] But at construction sites, we sheet-metal the sides. Cladding, it's called. Otherwise, people come along and punch holes through them. […] Or kids will come along and huck rocks through the roofs, just to hear the sound it makes.
* To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
* To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
* (transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee a long distance.
* (intransitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
* (mountain biking) To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.
    A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.
    If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.
* (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
* (transitive, whitewater kayaking) To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
    I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.

#### Noun

huck (plural hucks)
* (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
* (skiing, snowboarding) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

### Etymology 2

Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).

#### Noun

huck (plural hucks)
* (dialect) A person's hip.

##### Related terms

* huckle

### Etymology 3

From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).

#### Verb

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)
* (dated) To haggle in trading.

### Anagrams

* CUHK, HKCU

## Yola
### Alternative forms

* huch

### Etymology

From Middle English hucke (“to depart, proceed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hʊk/

### Verb

huck
* to come
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 84:Huck nigher; y'art scuddeen; fartoo zo hachee?Come nearer; you're rubbing your back; why so ill tempered?

#### Derived terms

* t'uck

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84