chuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌk/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: chucks
form: chucking
form: chucked
form: chucked
form: chock
Etymology: From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou look now as you did before we were married—when you used to walk with me under the Elms, and tell me stories of what a Gallant you were in your youth—and chuck me under the chin you would—and ask me if I thought I could love an old Fellow who would deny me nothing—didn't you?
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.ii:
glosses: To touch or tap gently.
examples: text: Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
examples: text: This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.
text: When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
synonyms: word: chuck out
word: junk
word: 86
word: bin
word: can
word: cast aside
word: cast off
word: cast away
word: chuck
word: chuck away
word: chuck out
word: discard
word: dispose of
word: ditch
word: dump
word: get rid of
word: jettison
word: pitch
word: scrap
word: shift
word: throw aside
word: throw away
word: throw out
word: toss
word: trash
glosses: To discard, to throw away.
examples: text: She's chucked me for another man!
glosses: To jilt; to dump.
examples: text: "When he got religion old Joe stuck every penny away in the Savings Bank, and when he chucked religion he'd draw out the lot and go on a bender that landed him in the horrors, like as not."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
synonyms: word: throw up
word: bait
word: barf
word: be sick
word: blow chunks
word: boak
word: boke
word: boot
word: bork
word: bow down before the porcelain god
word: cast
word: cast up one's accounts
word: chuck
word: chuck up
word: chunder
word: disgorge
word: drive the porcelain bus
word: erupt
word: gag
word: get sick
word: heave
word: honk
word: hurl
word: launch one's lunch
word: lose one's lunch
word: pray to the porcelain god
word: puke
word: puke up
word: purge
word: ralph
word: regurge
word: regurgitate
word: retch
word: shoot the cat
word: sick
word: sick up
word: spew
word: talk to God on the big white telephone
word: talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
word: throw up
word: toss
word: toss one's cookies
word: upchuck
word: vomit
word: woof one's cookies
word: whoops
word: worship the porcelain god
word: worship the porcelain goddess
word: yak
glosses: To vomit.
examples: text: Let's chuck.
synonyms: word: take off
word: beat it
word: bug off
word: remove
word: bugger off
word: book
word: bounce
word: buzz off
word: chuck
word: cut one's stick
word: dash
word: depart
word: duck out
word: exit
word: get away
word: get out
word: go
word: go away
word: go out
word: GTFO
word: leave
word: make tracks
word: move on
word: namous
word: part
word: piss off
word: pull up stakes
word: put out
word: start
word: start out
word: set forth
word: set off
word: set out
word: run along
word: sling one's hook
word: split
word: take off
word: take leave
word: take one's leave
word: take wing
word: quit
glosses: To leave; to depart; to bounce.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
Derived terms: chuckable
chuck a charley
chuck a dummy
chuck-a-luck
chuck and toss
chuck a sickie
chuck a spaz
chuck a uey
chuck away
chuck a wobbly
chuck down
chucker
chuck-farthing
chuck in
chuck it down
chuck off
chuck one's toys out of the cot
chuck one's toys out of the pram
chuck out
chuck the deuces
chuck up
fuck and chuck
upchuck