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chucker en · NOUN · etymology 1
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English chuck
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English chucker
From chuck + -er.
Meanings
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One who chucks; a thrower.
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A bowler who throws or chucks the ball rather than bowling it.
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Deriveds
spearchucker · chucker-out · motherchucker · pie-chucker
chucker en · NOUN · etymology 2
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of chukker.
[…] each chucker, which lasts only seven and one-half minutes. Sometimes when horses are sufficiently rested they are reinstated at a later period in relay fashion.
1925, Edward Mowbray Tuttle, The Book of Rural Life, page 4414:[…] polo, with hundreds of girls, dressed very much like nurses, flattening out the hoof marks after each chucker; […]
1936, Metropolitan Police College Journal, volume 2, page 243:
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