tuckern

Meaning

1. (weak) to throb, to beat quickly
2. (weak) to chug, to make continuous popping sounds
3. (broadly, weak) to chug along, to sail/drive fairly slowly making (or as if making) such sounds

Concepts

chug

chuggle

Synonyms

puffen

tingeln

kutschieren

gondeln

gurken

juckeln

Translations

rocío

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtʊkərn/

Etymology

20th century, from Low German tuckern (“to throb, pulsate”, 19th c.), iterative of tucken (“to jerk, twitch, beat, hit”), which is cognate with Dutch tokken, tukken, German zucken, zücken, and thus ultimately related to ziehen (“to pull”). The semantic development within Low German as well as the adoption into Standard German were reinforced by the word’s onomatopoeic quality.