chuck

chuck · noun, verb¹

Variant of chock.

chuck · noun²

1. Middle English · inherited fromchuk
2. English todaychuck

From Middle English chuk, of onomatopoeic origin, imitative of a hen's cluck.

chuck · verb³

1. Middle English · inherited fromchukken
2. English todaychuck

From Middle English chukken, from the noun (see above).

chuck · noun, verb⁴

1. Middle Dutch · derived fromschocken“to bump, shake”
2. fro-pic · derived fromchuquier“to collide, strike”
3. Middle English · inherited fromchokken“to thrust, pierce, cram”
4. English todaychuck

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.

chuck · noun⁵

From woodchuck.

chuck · noun⁶

From chuck (“to toss”).

chuck · noun⁷

Clipping of nunchuck, variant of nunchaku.

Chuck · proper noun⁸

Shortening of Edmonchuk. So named because of the large Ukrainian population; -чук (-čuk) is a common suffix in Ukrainian surnames.

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