name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
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Pronunciation
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/ɹʌk/
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Ireland, Northern-England: /ɹʊk/
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homophone: rook (most accents without the foot-strut split)
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rhymes with -ʌk
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CMU ARPABET: R AH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
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noun
Meaning 3
In Australian rules football
A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
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noun
Meaning 4
In Australian rules football
A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
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noun
Meaning 5
In Australian rules football
Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
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Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 6
In Australian rules football
Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
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noun
Meaning 7
The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: rugby union
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noun
Meaning 8
The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
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noun
Meaning 9
An argument or fight.
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Usage: colloquial
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noun
Meaning 10
A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
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noun
Meaning 11
Obsolete form of roc.
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Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 12
A rucksack; a large backpack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 13
A small heifer.
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verb
Meaning 14
To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 15
To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: rugby union
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verb
Meaning 16
To crease or fold.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 17
To become creased or folded.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 18
To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 19
To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
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noun
Meaning 20
a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his brilliance raised him above the ruck
- the children resembled a fairy herd
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Synonyms: herd
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Broader terms: multitude, throng, concourse
noun
Meaning 21
an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pucker
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Broader terms: fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend
verb
Meaning 22
become wrinkled or drawn together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- her lips puckered
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Synonyms: pucker, ruck up
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Broader terms: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
History
Etymology
* As a German surname, from the noun Rücken (“back”). * Also as a German surname, shortened from derivatives of Rüdiger. * As an English surname, variant of Rook, itself from the noun rook (“type of crow”).
From Middle English ruke, from or related to Old Norse hraukr, which is from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“haystack, heap”). Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.
1780, from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle, crease”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Icelandic hrukka (“wrinkle, crease, ruck”), Old High German runza (“fold, wrinkle, crease”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Middle Dutch ronse (“frown”). More at frounce. Possibly related to Irish roc.
Clipping of rucksack.
Compare Danish ruge (“to brood, to hatch”), itself related to Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap, stack”).
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: меле (mele) — contest for possession of the ball in Rugby
- Catalan: melé espontània — contest for possession of the ball in Rugby
- Czech: mlýn — contest for possession of the ball in Rugby
- Māori: paraketu — contest for possession of the ball in Rugby
- Māori: ketuketu — contest for possession of the ball in Rugby
- Catalan: rasclar — to contest possession of the ball in a game of Rugby
- Māori: ketuketu — to contest possession of the ball in a game of Rugby