The 'tuck-shop,' the baker's next door to the playground, the place where at twelve o'clock dozens of hot ginger-cakes, queen-cakes, and buns were devoured by boys whose dinner-hour was one.

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Examples of tuck in are generally talking about food preparation, not eating. Yes, there it stands, and as brightly as ever shines the name of over the door. We will be following modified hours of operation May 22nd- June 9th. Use of tuck in in a food context seems to be more common in BE than AE, but the examples are either tuck in, on its own, or tuck into or tuck in to .

1854įinally, Edmund Hodgson Yates remembers the list of products available from the baker's next to his old school, in My Haunts and Their Frequenters (1854, ), on the occasion of a visit to the annual prizes day: There, in unrestricted indulgence, did the party get through, there was no telling how many 'lady's fingers' tarts, and cheese cakes, and drank - there was no counting the corks of empty ginger beer bottles. we invited several class-fellows to celebrate so remarkable a day at a tuck-shop in the vicinity of Dean's Yard. Here's an interesting July 1849 from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (Volume 66 - ) that gives a list of some products sold at a Westminster, London tuck-shop: We passed our time on the two days allowed us in as pleasant a manner as possible we had some good games in the field attached to the school, and took great care to spend every farthing of our cash in the 'tuck shop,' and doubtless were not overglad when we were collected together by one of the beadles and introduced into the grammar-school to have our 'divisions' assign us, or to hear which school we were to attend in the afternoon or morning. Tuck-ins are a roastable, Inside-Out S’more on a stick, each containing a crunchy handmade graham cracker, covered in decadent chocolate, all inside a fluffy marshmallow Tuck-ins are available in Classic S'more, Gluten-Free Cookies & Cream, and Peanut Butter Tuck-ins are made from only the best ingredients, by the best people, for. I was so glad to tuck into my sandwich after the long, arduous hike up the mountain. Here's an extract from 'A Student's Reminiscences of His Early School Days' (from 1832, at Grey Friars Monastery-Christ's Hospital school in London) in The Student: A Magazine of Theology, Literature, and Science (pusblished 1844, Vol. To commence eating a meal or some piece of food, especially with enthusiasm or gusto. Their earliest citation for tuck shop (and tuck as food) is 1857, but I found some earlier examples. The simpler sense 'to consume or swallow food or drink' is from 1784, and means to ‘put away’, ‘put out of sight’. The Oxford English Dictionary says the verb tuck (often tuck in or tuck into) meaning 'to eat heartily or greedily' is from 1810. Mahantongo Senior Member English (U.S.

(Longman dictionary) Are the into here prepositions or adverbs I think its the latter. (OALD) They tucked into a hearty breakfast of eggs. A tuck shop was originally a pastry shop selling pastries and sweets to schoolchildren. 1 He was tucking into a huge plateful of pasta.

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