tucket

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tucket

/ˈtʌkɪt/
/ˈtʌkət/

Rhymes with -ʌkɪt

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From tuck (“a blow, a drum beat”), from Old French touchet (“stroke, blow”). Compare toccata. Compare also Middle French toquer from Old French *toquer (“to strike”).

noun tuckets

A fanfare played on one or more trumpets, bugles or similar. [T]hen let the Trumpets ſound / The Tucket Sonuance, and the Note to mount: / For our approach ſhall ſo much dare the field, / That England ſhall couch downe in feare, and yeeld.

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@misc{tucket_2026,
  title = {tucket},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tucket},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}