shuck
/ʃʌk/
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Ireland/ʃʊk/
shuck noun: the shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
Noun (1)
shuck (plural shucks)
Verb (1)
shuck (third-person singular simple present shucks, present participle shucking, simple past and past participle shucked)
- To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- Shall we shuck walnuts?
- To remove (any outer covering).
- I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
- [...] 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."1941 April, “Notes and News: The Reason Why”, in Railway Magazine, page 182
- 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.
Verb (2)
shuck (third-person singular simple present shucks, present participle shucking, simple past and past participle shucked)
Noun (2)
shuck (plural shucks)
- A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
Proper noun capitalized: Shuck
Shuck (plural Shucks)
- A surname.
shuck meaning in Tamil and Urdu
shuck in Tamil
- உமி, புறத்தோல்
shuck in Urdu
- shuck
- اخروٹ کا چھلکا axroṭ kā chalkā
Examples of shuck in a sentence
- We attended a corn shucking and two oyster shuckings.
- Meanwhile, I shucked my chefwear long enough to do two things.
- Douglas got up from the couch, shucked down his pants, and then knelt down beside my mother.
Synonyms of shuck
Forms of shuck
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | shucks |
| alternative form (dialectal) | shock |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | shucks |
| present participle | shucking |
| past participle | shucked |
| past | shucked |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Shucks |
Origin of shuck
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).
From a dialectal variant of shock.
Possibly from Middle English shucke, schucke (“demon, monster”), from Old English sċucca (“an evil spirit”).
Words formed from shuck
Phrases with shuck
Words that rhyme with shuck
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Questions about shuck
- What does shuck mean?
- Shuck means the shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- What is shuck in Tamil?
- Shuck in Tamil is உமி, புறத்தோல். See Shuck meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is shuck?
- Shuck can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce shuck?
- Shuck is pronounced /ʃʌk/.
- What is the plural of shuck?
- The plural of shuck is shucks.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shuck (page history and authors); Shuck (page history and authors); shuck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اخروٹ کا چھلکا (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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