Shuck

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A husk, pod, or shell, as of a pea, hickory nut, or ear of corn.
  • n. The shell of an oyster or clam.
  • n. Informal Something worthless. Often used in the plural: an issue that didn't amount to shucks.
  • v. To remove the husk or shell from.
  • v. Informal To cast off: shucked their coats and cooled off; a city trying to shuck a sooty image.
  • interjection. Used to express mild disappointment, disgust, or annoyance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
  • n. A fraud; a scam.
  • n. A phony.
  • v. To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
  • v. To remove (any outer covering).
  • v. To fool; to hoax.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A shock of grain.
  • n. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
  • n. The shell of an oyster or clam.
  • v. To deprive of the shucks or husks
  • v. To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To shake.
  • n. A husk or pod: used especially of the epicarp of hickory-nuts and walnuts, the prickly involucre of chestnuts, etc., also, in England, of the pods of peas, etc., and, in some parts of the United States, of the husks of maize.
  • n. The shell of the oyster.
  • n. A case or covering, as that of the larva of a caddis-fly.
  • To remove the husk, pod, or shell from: in the United States said especially of the husking of corn or the shelling of oysters.
  • To take; strip: with off.
  • n. A shock; a stook.
  • n. The devil.
  • A call to pigs.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. remove from the shell
  • v. remove the shucks from
  • n. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
  • Verb Form
    shucked    shucking    shucks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    remove    take    withdraw    take away   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    shucked    shucking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hull   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Buck    Canuck    Chuck    Duck    Gluck    Puck    amok    amuck    bruck    buck