shucks
Britishplural noun
interjection
Example Sentences
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In 2019’s “Shazam!,” also directed by David F. Sandberg, there was something rather charming about Levi’s boyish performance, a grown man playing Superman with all the aw shucks wonder of a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023
The NFL issued a $10 million fine — so, shucks, poor Dan will have to put his next super yacht on layaway — and shifted day-to-day control of the team to his wife, Tanya.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022
He might as well have said, "Aw, shucks."
From Fox News • Feb. 5, 2022
I used to sort of like, roll my eyes every time Taylor Swift was all, ‘Aw shucks, really, me?’
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2021
I lay there and listened to the corn shucks squeak when I breathed and to the owls hooting in the timber along Birdsong Creek.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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