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TUCKER : 1: English (southwestern): occupational name from Middle English tuker(e) toker(e) ‘tucker fuller’ a derivative of tuken ‘to torment beat’ (Old English tūcian) for someone who fulled and finished cloth. This name for the occupation was characteristic of the West Country. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Fuller">Fuller</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Walker">Walker</a> and see also <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Tuckerman">Tuckerman</a>.2: Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuachair ‘descendant of Tuachar’ a personal name composed of the elements tuath ‘people’ + car ‘dear beloved’.3: Americanized form of Jewish Tocker or Toker (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Tokarz">Tokarz</a>).4: Possibly also an Americanized form of German Tucher: occupational name for a cloth maker or merchant from an agent derivative of Middle High German tuoch ‘cloth’.

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