TUCKERED OUT, phr. (American).—Tired out.
c. 1840. Story of the Bee Tree [BARTLETT]. I’m clear TUCKERED OUT with these young ones. They’ve had the agur this morning, and are as cross as bear cubs.
c. 1859. N. Y. Family Comp. [BARTLETT]. I guess the Queen don’t do her eating very airly; for we sot and sot, and waited for her, till we got e’en a’most TUCKERED OUT.
18[?]. Southern and South-western Sketches, 123. [We] fought until we were completely TUCKERED OUT.
