shuck
Plural: shucks
Noun
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- A fraud; a scam.
- A phony.
- A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
Verb
Verb Forms: shucked, shucking, shucks
- To remove the outer husk or shell from something, like corn.
- remove from the shell
- "shuck oysters"
- remove the shucks from
- "shuck corn"
- To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- To remove (any outer covering).
- To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- To fool; to hoax.
- To shake; shiver.
- To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
- To walk at a slow trot.
Examples
- I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
- Shall we shuck walnuts?
- You have to shuck through many letter combinations to find the perfect word for your rack.
Origin / Etymology
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).
Scrabble Score: 14
shuck: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordshuck: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shuck: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary