huckepack
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Low German Huckeback, as in enen up’n Huckeback nömen (literally “to take someone on one’s piggyback”). The first component is cognate with German Hucke (“load, burden”) or a related verb hucken (“to carry a load”). The second component is from Middle Low German bak (“back”) by the consensus of the etymological standard literature. The component -back was associated with Pack (“pack, package”) when the word spread southward, since Back was exclusively a Low German word (gradually going out of use even there).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]huckepack
- carried on someone’s back (particularly another person); piggyback
- Sie trägt ihren kleinen Bruder huckepack.
- She’s carrying her little brother piggyback.