Timeline for Origin of the phrase "to have no truck with"
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| Sep 24 at 12:16 | answer | added | Linda Dunbar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 10, 2022 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1535139698909319168 | ||
| Jun 6, 2022 at 17:56 | comment | added | T.E.D. | Pretty sure I've actually heard this in spoken English in the wild, perhaps from Southern Midland American English speakers? Also seems like in most of the country its been replaced by the same phrase, but ... er ... with the "tr" replaced by "f". | |
| S Jun 5, 2022 at 17:28 | vote | accept | Shreyan Das | ||
| Jun 5, 2022 at 17:24 | answer | added | Laurel♦ | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 15:00 | comment | added | user 66974 | @Mari-LouA - the original French “troque” became “truke” in ME, from which, probably, the ck suffix. | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 11:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 5, 2022 at 11:48 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Unbelievable, another user suggesting the question be closed for lack of research. Do people actually read the content of posts? The OP mentions the French word truc the research is in the text body, folks! I would be curious to know when/why the "k" was added to truc. The accepted answer doesn't tell me anything about that. | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 8:39 | comment | added | Shreyan Das | @Sé1lanceLaléa thank you for these references! These are very useful! | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 6:51 | history | reopened |
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| Jun 5, 2022 at 5:06 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jun 5, 2022 at 4:48 | history | closed |
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| Jun 4, 2022 at 21:45 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 4, 2022 at 21:43 | comment | added | user425462 | For the French element, see these (1, 2, 3). | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 21:42 | comment | added | Mitch | @DanBron Sounds like a good answer to be made out of that! | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 18:07 | vote | accept | Shreyan Das | ||
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| Jun 4, 2022 at 18:06 | answer | added | user 66974 | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 14:40 | comment | added | Shreyan Das | @DanBron Aaah! Yes, that should make a lot of sense! Thanks for pointing it out to me | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 14:37 | comment | added | John Lawler | This is an original sense of truck garden, which I grew up thinking was named after the trucks that took fresh produce to market. | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 14:34 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 4, 2022 at 12:54 | comment | added | Dan Bron | "Based on the lexical meanings of the words"; I think you're missing a lexical meaning. See OED sense v5 (a and especially b): imgur.com/a/jVapCZb . Similar entries in all the other dictionaries I checked. In use since the 17th century. Relatively easy to see how the sense evolved (barter->exchange->have dealings with). For an expanded etymology, see etymonline.com/word/truck#etymonline_v_17884 (which reiterates "sense of 'dealings' from the 1620s). | |
| S Jun 4, 2022 at 12:44 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jun 4, 2022 at 12:44 | history | asked | Shreyan Das | CC BY-SA 4.0 |