shuck
1a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
Usually shucks .Informal. something useless or worthless: They don't care shucks about the project.
the shell of an oyster or clam.
to remove the shucks from: to shuck corn.
to remove or discard as or like shucks; peel off: to shuck one's clothes.
Slang. to get rid of (often followed by off): a bad habit I couldn't shuck off for years.
shucks, Informal. (used as a mild exclamation of disgust or regret.)
Origin of shuck
1Other words from shuck
- shucker, noun
Words Nearby shuck
Other definitions for shuck (2 of 2)
to deceive or lie to.
Origin of shuck
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How to use shuck in a sentence
He was successful without “bowing or scraping” or “shucking and jiving,” as it was called back then.
That changed last week when Kennedy took his aw-shucks-country-boy-in-a-rumpled-suit shtick too far.
John Kennedy Went From a Democrat to the GOP's Discount Joe McCarthy | Margaret Carlson | November 23, 2021 | The Daily BeastOn these plains, shuck says, you can watch your dog run away for a week.
Why is it so hard to shuck this notion that governments should cut spending and/or raise taxes in times of economic slack?
Austerity’s Scottish Ghosts Haunt the Modern Economic Mind | Mark Blyth | May 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTshuck went on to become a drill sergeant and Gabe was assigned to a new handler.
Back Home, Service Dogs Sleep in Beds—and Sniff the Sofa for Mines | Sandra McElwaine | September 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Ultimately, Gabe was allowed to retire and was adopted by shuck.
Back Home, Service Dogs Sleep in Beds—and Sniff the Sofa for Mines | Sandra McElwaine | September 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMy heart jump, my knees shuck, en my han' trimble; but I know I got ter git away fum dar.
Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches | Joel Chandler HarrisHe just stayed, and shuck hands with everybody, pleasant as a basket of chips; and he went home with David Gillespie.
The Leatherwood God | William Dean HowellsHe was dredful glad to see me, an shuck my hand as ef he thought there warn't no feelin in it.
For the shuck, as I see it, is exclusiveness, which is not valuable except to persons justly doubtful of their own merits.
Atlantic Classics | VariousHer face was so thin her eyes stood out like a bird's, and her cheek was the color of an old shuck of corn.
The Shadow | Mary White Ovington
British Dictionary definitions for shuck
/ (ʃʌk) /
the outer covering of something, such as the husk of a grain of maize, a pea pod, or an oyster shell
to remove the shucks from
informal, mainly US and Canadian to throw off or remove (clothes, etc)
Origin of shuck
1Derived forms of shuck
- shucker, noun
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