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TUCK
Definition of TUCK
verb
To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,201)
How it is built
Same root, TUCK · 6 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TUCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TUCK starts with T and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CKTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TUCK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found TUCK?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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