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huck¹

  • /hʌk/
  • /hʊk/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌk

Where it comes from

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.

verb hucks · hucking · hucked

  1. informal, transitive To throw or chuck. He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.

    Similar: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk, heave

  2. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
  3. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
  4. transitive To throw a frisbee a long distance.
  5. intransitive To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
  6. To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly. A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.
  7. To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
  8. transitive To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop. I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.

noun hucks

  1. A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
  2. A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

huck²

  • /hʌk/
  • /hʊk/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌk

Where it comes from

Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).

noun hucks

  1. dialectal A person's hip.

huck³

  • /hʌk/
  • /hʊk/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌk

Where it comes from

From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).

verb hucks · hucking · hucked

  1. dated To haggle in trading.

huck⁴

  • /hʌk/
  • /hʊk/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌk

noun hucks

  1. alternative Alternative form of huq

Huck⁵

Where it comes from

* As an English surname, from Middle English Hucke, possibly from Old English *Hucca, *Ucca, personal names, and over time influenced by Hugh.

* As a Dutch and German surname, from a pet form of Hugo.

proper noun Hucks

  1. A surname.

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@misc{huck_2026,
  title = {huck},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/huck},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}