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It's no surprise that 'tuckered out' is an American phrase. No 'B-feature' western from the 1930s and 1940s was complete without Gabby Hayes being 'plumb tuckered out'. Hayes' contribution to the genre was celebrated by Mel Brooks in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles. In that, a look-alike actor played the part of Gabby Johnson, spouting 'authentic frontier gibberish' - "dad gum it, I am gonna die here an' no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me biscuit cutter".
An example is from the Wisconsin Enquirer, April 1839:
"I reckoned to have got to the tavern by sundown, but I haven't - as I'm prodigiously tuckered out."
'Plumb tuckered out' is somewhat later and the first example is from the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, February 1889: "They'll get plumb tuckered out waitin."
The actual derivation of this phrase is quite prosaic. 'Tucker' is a colloquial New England word, coined in the early 19th century, meaning 'to tire' or 'to become weary'. 'Tuckered out' is just a straightforward use of that. 'Plumb' is just an intensifier. 'Tuckered out' is rarely seen alone.
Origin:
It's no surprise that 'tuckered out' is an American phrase. No 'B-feature' western from the 1930s and 1940s was complete without Gabby Hayes being 'plumb tuckered out'. Hayes' contribution to the genre was celebrated by Mel Brooks in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles. In that, a look-alike actor played the part of Gabby Johnson, spouting 'authentic frontier gibberish' - "dad gum it, I am gonna die here an' no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me biscuit cutter".
An example is from the Wisconsin Enquirer, April 1839:
"I reckoned to have got to the tavern by sundown, but I haven't - as I'm prodigiously tuckered out."
'Plumb tuckered out' is somewhat later and the first example is from the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, February 1889: "They'll get plumb tuckered out waitin."
The actual derivation of this phrase is quite prosaic. 'Tucker' is a colloquial New England word, coined in the early 19th century, meaning 'to tire' or 'to become weary'. 'Tuckered out' is just a straightforward use of that. 'Plumb' is just an intensifier. 'Tuckered out' is rarely seen alone.
by CajunQueen August 18, 2009
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term for exhausted that originates from the "Deep South" during the Civil War to the beginning and middle of the 20th Century.
by druidwarrior89 May 6, 2011
Get the plum tuckered out mug.1) to be full and to not want anymore when asked.
2) When talking to the alpha n00b and you get incredibly pissed off and you say that this conversation has gone plum tucket.
2) When talking to the alpha n00b and you get incredibly pissed off and you say that this conversation has gone plum tucket.
1) Want more corn?
no im plum tucket at the moment.
2) alpha n00b: exura sio para "leader of skeles
not so n00b: lol, your such a noob
not so n00b: you don't put para
alpha n00b: i not that!
no im plum tucket at the moment.
2) alpha n00b: exura sio para "leader of skeles
not so n00b: lol, your such a noob
not so n00b: you don't put para
alpha n00b: i not that!
by Many Mexicans November 19, 2005
Get the plum tucket mug.Da feeling of utter exhaustion dat you get after majorly chowing down on Australian food dat's been prepared with copious quantities of luscious juicy purple "stool-softener" fruits.
Maybe if da landowner and da "troopers, one-two-three" has simply hidden and waited till da "jolly swag-man" had boiled da "jolly jumbuck" in his "billy" and then added some fresh lavender-colored oversize tree-berries to da pot, said "gleeful" stock-rustler would have been so "plum tuckered" after greedily devouring said fruit-embellished delicacy dat he could have been arrested and hauled off to jail, instead of simply running off and drowning himself in da billabong.
by QuacksO February 7, 2020
Get the plum tuckered mug.being so tired after a plum tuckering day of breaking your arm and becoming a horse girl that you go to bed at 5pm much to everyone’s suspicion
henry: henryway, i am plum tuckered. i’m going to bed.
piper: but it’s only 5 o’clock?
henry: already? oh jeez i am plum tuckered goodnight
piper: but it’s only 5 o’clock?
henry: already? oh jeez i am plum tuckered goodnight
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