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shuckish

shuckish adjective: causing one to shiver, cold.

Adjective

shuckish (comparative more shuckish, superlative most shuckish)

  1. (dialectal) Causing one to shiver, cold
  2. (dialectal) Unpleasant; unsettled, windy, showery

Forms of shuckish

comparativemore shuckish
superlativemost shuckish

Origin of shuckish

From dialectal shuck (“to shake, shiver”) + -ish.

Questions about shuckish

What does shuckish mean?
Shuckish means causing one to shiver, cold.
What part of speech is shuckish?
Shuckish is an adjective.

Words near shuckish in the dictionary

  1. shucking down
  2. shucking knife
  3. shucking knives
  4. shucking off
  5. shuckings
  6. shuckish
  7. shuckle
  8. shuckled
  9. shuckles
  10. shuckling
  11. shucks

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