chuck

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  1. transitive verb To pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin.
  2. transitive verb To throw or toss: chucked stones into the water.
  3. transitive verb Informal To throw out; discard: chucked my old sweater.
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Etymologies (13)

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  1. Variant of chock, possibly from French choc, knock, blow; see shock1.
  2. Dialectal chuck, lump, perhaps variant of chock.
  3. Middle English chukken, of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English chukken; imitative, like cluck = clock, q. v. Hence freq. chuckle, cackle, etc., and ult. cock; cf. also chock and choke.
  2. from chuck, v.
  3. See chuck, v. and n.
  4. A variant of chick, prob. through influence of chuck.
  5. A variant of chock, q. v.
  6. Of uncertain and prob. various origin; in the sense of ‘block,’ cf. chunk (and chub, chump, etc.), also cock, a heap; in the sense of ‘sea-shell,’ cf. chack and cockle. In the mechanical uses also chock, and associated with chuck, chock, to throw, and prob. also with chock, choke: see chuck, chock, chock, chock.
  7. from chuck, n.
  8. A variant of chack.
  9. A clipped form of wood-chuck.
  10. chuck, v.
 

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