chuck

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CET6+TEM8中低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?chucks;第三人稱單數(shù):?chucks;過去式:?chucked;過去分詞:?chucked;現(xiàn)在分詞:?chucking;

1. Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.
2. chick => chuck.
3. chock => chuck.
4. chunk => chuck.
5. 諧音“卡殼”。

chuck 扔

來自chock拼寫變體。模仿大塊物件落地的聲音。

chuck (v.1): "to throw," 1590s, variant of chock "give a blow under the chin" (1580s), possibly from French choquer "to shock, strike against," imitative (see shock (n.1)). Related: Chucked; chucking.
chuck (n.1): "piece of wood or meat," 1670s, probably a variant of chock (n.) "block." "Chock and chuck appear to have been originally variants of the same word, which are now somewhat differentiated" [OED]. Specifically of shoulder meat from early 18c. American English chuck wagon (1880) is from the meat sense.
Chock and Chuck, Are low terms, very frequently used before full,--as the coach was chock full of passengers. The house was chuck full. [Daniel Powers, "A Grammar on an Entirely New System," West Brookfield, 1845]
chuck (n.2): "slight blow under the chin," 1610s, from chuck (v.1). Meaning "a toss, a throw" is from 1862. Related: Chucked; chucking.

1. You cannot chuck money away on little luxuries like that.: 你不該把錢浪費(fèi)在那種小奢侈品上。

2. Chuck would lecture me, telling me to get a haircut.: 查克就會(huì)數(shù)落我，讓我去理一下發(fā)。

3. Sometimes I'd like to chuck it all and go fishing.: 有時(shí)候，我真想辭職不干了去釣魚。