lucker

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English

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Etymology

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From luck +‎ -er.

Noun

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lucker (plural luckers)

  1. (slang) A very lucky person.
    • 1920, Angela Brazil, The Princess of the School:
      You lucker! My train doesn't start till ten! I begged and implored Miss Walters to let me leave by the early one, and wait at the junction, but she would not hear of it, so I've got to stop here kicking my heels, []

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Low German lukker, further origin uncertain. Cognate of German locker.

Adjective

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lucker (comparative luckrare, superlative luckrast)

  1. loose, porous, friable

Usage notes

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Especially common to describe soil.

Declension

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Inflection of lucker
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular lucker luckrare luckrast
Neuter singular luckert luckrare luckrast
Plural luckra luckrare luckrast
Masculine plural3 luckre luckrare luckrast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 luckre luckrare luckraste
All luckra luckrare luckraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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