chuck

name

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

1. The city of Edmonton.

noun

1. a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.

   “Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent / Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty”

verb

Etymology: 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.

1. To touch or tap gently.

   “[Y]ou look now as you did before we were married—when you used to walk with me under the Elms, and tell me stories of what a Gallant you were in your youth—and chuck me under the chin you would—and ask me if I thought I could love an old Fellow who would deny me nothing—didn't you?”

2. To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.

   “Chuck that magazine to me, would you?”

3. To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
4. To discard, to throw away.

   “This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.”

   “When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow […]”

5. To jilt; to dump.

   “She's chucked me for another man!”

6. To give up; to stop doing; to quit.

   “"When he got religion old Joe stuck every penny away in the Savings Bank, and when he chucked religion he'd draw out the lot and go on a bender that landed him in the horrors, like as not."”

7. To vomit.
8. To leave; to depart; to bounce.

   “Let's chuck.”

9. On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.