14 Aug 2008
reactionry
[Dangnabbit! Once agin', Hugh done beat me on the draw while I wuz composin'. Maybe I'll be first the next time -sigh - good gluck mit dat]
I Hear The Plummy Voices Calling: Old Union Jack
Another annoying British abbreviation or adumbration!!! (sorry 'bout breakin da house rules) "Tuckered out" seems as incomplete as "muckety-muck" without "high" and/or "Lord". Unlike you Europeans, we Americans have earned the right to be tuckered out; what with our long work weeks and few vacation days, many now spent as stacations involving household chores or home remodeling projects or fixing their own plumbing. The Wikipedia entry nicely confirms this and throws in some stuff via a commodius vicus or Gabby Lane about a Hayes who's a mite more memorable than any Haze.
Little Jack Horner
Slouched in a corner,
Put his thumb in a spout,
And said, "Ah'm plumb tuckered out!"