ruck
/ɹʌk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
noun
The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "‘Here and there among cats one comes across an outstanding superior intellect, just as one does among the ruck of human beings [...].’"
- "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."
- "Puzzle begged very hard to have the lion-skin taken off him. He said it was too hot and the way it was rucked up on his back was uncomfortable […]"
- ""What, exactly, happened down cellar?" Appleyard asked, straightening with his heel a rucked rug."
- "She wore long dangling earrings faced with mirrors, and white Bermuda shorts rucked back to reveal knees and thighs like waxed maple."
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.