Meaning

2 senses

  1. To crease or wrinkle.

  2. (Scotland, intransitive)To make a rattling noise in the throat.

    make a hoarse, rattling sound

Origin

Variant of ruck. Probably cognate with Dutch rochelen (“to hawk”).

Variant of ruck.

Probably cognate with Dutch rochelen (“to hawk”).

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Forms

ruckles, ruckling, ruckled, ruckled
Base formruckle · to ruckle
3rd person singularruckles
Present participleruckling
Past simpleruckled
Past participleruckled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyruckle
he, she, itruckles

Past simpleLesson

all personsruckled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ruckled
he, she, ithas ruckled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill ruckle

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rubricrubyrucksackruckusrudderruddy
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