Noun: ruck
Sample Sentences
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Dandolo was constantly in the ditch, sometimes lying with his side against the bank, and had now been so hustled and driven that, had he been on the other side, he would have had no breath left to carry his rider, even in the ruck of the hunt. [1873, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014, Chapter 16:]
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‘Here and there among cats one comes across an outstanding superior intellect, just as one does among the ruck of human beings [...].’ [1911, Saki, “Tobermory”, in The Chronicles of Clovis:]
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Your worth as a couple is not down to how passionate your rucks are—I said rucks—and how frantic the making-up sex is. [2023 January 28, Justin Myers, “62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’”, in The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like ruck
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English ruke, from or related to Old Norse hraukr, which is from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“haystack, heap”). Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka. See: Middle English Nouns '
ruke', Old Norse Nouns '
hraukr', Icelandic Nouns '
hrúka'.