Shuck

Quick meaning: Shuck is a noun meaning The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).

Meaning

The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
2. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
3. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
4. (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
5. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
6. (slang) A phony.
7. (dialectal) To shake; shiver.

Example Sentences

Shall we shuck walnuts?

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

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

[...] but what had actually happened was that the wheel of one of the coaches became detached from its axle, or, in the more expressive American argot, the train "shucked off a wheel near Everett."

Word Forms

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Synonyms for shuck

Depending on context, synonyms include padfoot, shriker, stalk, husk, chaff, straw.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include husk, chaff, straw, stubble, stalk, mattress.

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