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Definition of Ruck up
1. Verb. Become wrinkled or drawn together. "The sheets didn't ruck up"; "Her lips puckered"
Generic synonyms: Crease, Crinkle, Crisp, Ruckle, Scrunch, Scrunch Up, Wrinkle
Derivative terms: Pucker, Ruck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruck Up
Literary usage of Ruck up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth by Aubrey Strahan (1898)
"The form of the V, taken in connection with the above considerations, points to
its having been formed by a ruck-up from below upwards. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"(2) a large quantity, or number. " A ruck o' brass," ie, a great deal of money.
"A ruck o' childer," ie, many children. RUCK or ruck up, v. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"RUCK or ruck up, v. (i) to make a heap. " Yo'd best ruck it." 1(3) shrivelled
and withered, as flowers exposed to the hot sun. FRODSHAM. ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... and pulling his tie down under hie coat, it« tendency during a drive generally
being to " ruck up " and obliterate his shirt-collar. ..."
5. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1887)
"E., dipping E., and here and there cutting the ruck up into rhombohedral-shaped
pieces. The ore-bed, especially near the surface, often breaks up into ..."
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