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shucky beans

shucky beans noun: green beans which have been dried on a string.

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
    Synonyms:
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Synonyms of shucky beans

Forms of shucky beans

alternative formshuck beans

Origin of shucky beans

From the method of drying the beans within their shucks.

Questions about shucky beans

What does shucky beans mean?
Shucky beans means green beans which have been dried on a string.
What part of speech is shucky beans?
Shucky beans is a noun.

Words near shucky beans in the dictionary

  1. shucks down
  2. shucks off
  3. Shucksmith
  4. Shucksmiths
  5. shucky
  6. shucky beans
  7. shucky ducky
  8. shud
  9. shudda
  10. shuddap
  11. shudder

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