ruck up?

[melissa_42]

Does the following sentence make sense?

He rucked up his shirt.

I'm trying to use 'ruck up' to mean that he bunched his shirt up so his abdomen was exposed.  I've tried using Google to see if this phrase even exists, but the search results aren't very helpful.  Does anyone know if I can use this phrase, or should I look for an alternative?

Thanks in

Comments

[sollersuk]

I'd only use it in the sense of happening accidentally and in the passive voice - "his shirt was rucked up"

[sidheag]

OTOH, it sounds fine to me, and I usually agree with sollersuk i.e. I think we speak similar dialects. Go figure, as they say somewhere...

[switchercat]

I'd tend to agree with this (though I don't know that I, myself, would use it at all).

The sentence you (OP) produced is comprehensible, though.

[fencer_x]

I'd know immediately what you meant and would probably use it myself in the same meaning. I'm a native speaker from Louisiana, USA (25 yo). Where are you from? Maybe it's a regional thing...?

[bluedelirium]

It sounds fine to me; native speaker from Ohio....

[electricdruid]

I've never heard that word before and didn't understand til you explained the meaning. The first word I thought of was, perhaps, "ruched," but I personally would have just written it out as you explained it instead of using a word for it XD

[primroseburrows]

I think I'd use "hiked up" (English speaker, New England born and raised). "Rucked up" has a British feel--at least to me; I have no idea whether it's actually British in origin.

[electricdruid]

This.

[pastilla]

This +1 (Canada)

[sorrowis_stupid]

me too, same region, and I've never heard the verb "to ruck".