English Explanatory Dictionary

shuck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
  2. A fraud; a scam.
  3. A phony.
verb
  1. To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
  2. To remove (any outer covering).
  3. To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
  4. To fool; to hoax.
verb
  1. To shake; shiver.
  2. To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
  3. To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
  4. To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
  5. To walk at a slow trot.
noun
  1. A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ʃʌk/ en-us-shuck.ogg /ʃʊk/

Word forms

shuck shucks shock shucking shucked

Etymology

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).

Synonyms

padfoot shriker

Derived words

cornshuck shuck pen shuck and jive shuck down shucker shuckery shucking knife shuck off unshucked shuckish shucky

Translations

Bulgarian: вадя от черупката Bulgarian: обелвам Catalan: desgranar Catalan: esgranar Czech: vyloupnout Czech: rozlousknout Czech: loupat Czech: sundat si Czech: sundat Czech: shodit ze sebe French: décortiquer French: écailler French: écosser Galician: escochar Galician: esconchar Māori: pāoraora Māori: tiora Māori: kōwhā Russian: очищать Spanish: descascar
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