lucker

See also: Lucker

English

Etymology

luck +‎ -er

Noun

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, […]

Anagrams

• Ruckle, ruckle

Swedish

Etymology

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

Adjective

lucker (comparative luckrare, superlative luckrast)

1. loose, porous, friable

Usage notes

Especially common to describe soil.

Declension

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

Derived terms

• luckerhet
• luckra

References

• lucker in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lucker in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lucker in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• lucker in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)