tucker fucker

English

Etymology

From tucker (“food”) + fucker (“one who ruins”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

tucker fucker (countable and uncountable, plural tucker fuckers)

1. (countable, Australia, slang, derogatory) A cook, especially a second-rate one.
   • 2001, Peter Haran, Robert Kearney, Crossfire: An Australian Reconnaissance Unit in Vietnam, unnumbered page:

     I never made it as a ‘Tucker Fucker’ (a cook), but I made it as a grunt—crap food and buggered and wet, or buggered and dry, all the time.

   • 2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane, Zeus Publications, eBookIt, unnumbered page,

     ‘Let's have a cuppa tea,’ he said. ‘The tucker fuckers (cooks) always do a bit extra, the bloody instructors always knock it off.’

   • 2010, Jim Nicolson, Long Creek, iUniverse, page 10:

     “ […] Yer see, young feller, cooks is graded up here. On top yer gets cooks. After ′em comes tucker fuckers. Then bait layers. An′ last of all yer gets yer willful bloody murderers.”

2. (countable, Australia, slang) A microwave oven.
3. (uncountable, Australia, slang) Tomato sauce.