[Echoic: = Burmese tokté (Yule), taukte, from the animal’s cry.] Name in Burma for a large house lizard.
1896. Athenæum, 19 Dec., 870/1. The larger house lizard, which she calls the tucktoo.
1901. J. W. Payne, in Bulwark, Nov., 260/1. In many a village you can see and hear the children with mock gravity keeping time to the tucktoo. Ibid. By day and by night he will tell you his name—‘Tuck-too! Tuck-too!’ And though he speaks often, it’s always the same—‘Tuck-too! Tuck-too!’
