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shuck beans

shuck beans is the alternative form of shucky beans.

Meaning of shucky beans

Noun

shucky beans pl (plural only)

  1. (Appalachia, plural, plural-only) Green beans which have been dried on a string.
    • As much as I would like to say I knew all about shuck [sic] beans from childhood, the truth is, I happened upon this topic by doing some digging on Appalachian foodways, and I liked the word, “shucky beans.”2021, Mike Templeton, Aw, Shucks: A Brief Discourse on Shucky Beans, page 1
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Questions about shuck beans

What is shuck beans the alternative form of?
Shuck beans is the alternative form of shucky beans.

Words near shuck beans in the dictionary

  1. Shucheng
  2. Shuchita
  3. shuck
  4. shuck and jive
  5. shuck and jives
  6. shuck beans
  7. shuck down
  8. shuck off
  9. shuck pen
  10. shuck pens
  11. shuck-and-jive

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