tucker

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

Australian slang for food. To tuck in is provincial English for to eat, and tuck is a school-boy word for food, especially whatis bought at a pastrycook's. To make tucker meansto earn merely enough to pay for food.

1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 73:

«For want of more nourishing tucker,

I believe they'd have eaten him.»

1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for the Mail,' p. 33:

«We heard of big nuggets, but only made tucker.»

1890. `The Argus,' June 14, p. 14, col. 1:

«When a travelling man sees a hut ahead, he knows there's waterinside, and tucker and tea.»

1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 83:

«I took my meal in the hut, but we'd both the same kind oftucker.»

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