Friar Tuck

English Etymology After a character so named in the Robin Hood legend. Noun Friar Tuck en rhyming slang A fuck; sexual intercourse. A jovial and friendly man, especially a religious figure who steals for good reasons. en the Austrian footpads insist on their share of the spoil, and go halves with the priestly taxgather the Friar Tuck of Italy. 40 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Orations_by_Father_Gavazzi_Decade_the_Se/Nch5X8-QU08C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+friar+tuck+of%22+-%22robin%22+-marian&pg=PA40&printsec=frontcover David Bogue Orations by Father Gavazzi. (Decade the Second. With Sketches of Previous Reformers of the Italian Church.) Alessandro Gavazzi 1851 en The Lady Shidzuka was his mistress, and Benkei was a robber-priest who allied himself with Yoshitsuné's fortunes and figures as the Friar Tuck of Japan. 399 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hizakurig%C3%A9/NcQgAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+friar+tuck+of%22+-%22robin%22+-marian&pg=PA399&printsec=frontcover Chronicle Press Hizakurigé (Tokaidō Circuit) Ikku Jippensha 1929 en Stirred up, as was suspected, by the Dutch traders, the Narragansetts were already on the war-path, and Endicott had just captured their fort at Block Island. Captain Underhill, the "Friar Tuck" of the New England greenwood, had just feasted his twenty merry men in the Dutch fort of Good Hope; and his grotesque exploit-the fort was empty-had further exasperated the people of New Netherlands. 266 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Magazine_of_American_History_with_No/HXFIAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+friar+tuck+of%22+-%22robin%22+-marian&pg=PA266&printsec=frontcover A. S. Barnes The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries 8 1882 Roger Ludlowe: The Father of Connecticut Jurisprudence WM A. Beers en Francis Mahoney, or O'Mahoney, born in 1805, began life as a priest in Ireland, but having while still in early life abandoned, or been abandoned by, the heads of that sacred profession, first made himself known to the world in the very different atmosphere of those revels-which, in imitation of the "Noctes" of "Blackwood," were a kind of pretended necessity of every literary undertaking, -among the lively, somewhat riotous and somewhat profane crew of "Fraser," Mahoney called himself "Father Prout," the Friar Tuck of the jovial company, and his sketches had some success in their time, though not so much as his songs 75 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Victorian_Age_of_English_Literature/-ViTJLpUTDEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+friar+tuck+of%22+-%22robin%22+-marian&pg=PA75&printsec=frontcover The Victorian Age of English Literature: In Two Volumes 1 Margaret Oliphant 1893 Heinemann and Balestier en The following "Tragedy of the Till" is one of the legends, told by that most delightful of modern Friar Tucks, "The Hermit of Bellyfulle." 50 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Library_of_Choice_Literature/cF0-AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22friar+tucks%22+-%22robin%22+-marian&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover Gebbie & Company The Tragedy of the Till The Library of Choice Literature: Prose and Poetry Selected from the Most Admired Authors 3 1883 Douglas Jerrold Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon en terms derived from fiction eponyms en Fictional characters