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Shuck

//ʃʌk// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).

    "There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks."

  2. 2
    A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore. European
  3. 3
    material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds wordnet
  4. 4
    A fraud; a scam. slang
  5. 5
    A phony. slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.). transitive

    "Shall we shuck walnuts?"

  2. 2
    To shake; shiver. dialectal
  3. 3
    remove the shucks from wordnet
  4. 4
    To remove (any outer covering). transitive

    "I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool."

  5. 5
    To slither or slip, move about, wriggle. dialectal
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  1. 6
    remove from the shell wordnet
  2. 7
    To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device. slang, transitive
  3. 8
    To do hurriedly or in a restless way. dialectal
  4. 9
    To fool; to hoax. intransitive, slang, transitive
  5. 10
    To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk. dialectal
  6. 11
    To walk at a slow trot. dialectal

Etymology

Etymology 1

Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).

Etymology 3

From a dialectal variant of shock.

Etymology 4

* As an English surname, from Old English scucca (“evil spirit”). * As a German andJewish surname, Americanized from Schuck.

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