shucks

But you must remember me only the other day you reprimanded me for a posting I made about your American friend,I in return used the American word "shucks" in a comment as a gesture of friendship,remember me now ?

One of Many? 2007

Oh yeah, and it doesn't go without saying: "shucks" for the praise...

Life On Mars annawaits 2007

I used the word "shucks" did you notice ? an American word, to offer a hand of friendship across the sea as it were.

Comment Registration: The Experiment Ends Early 2007

POWELL: The most I ever saw him do is maybe say, "shucks" over some particular problem that had occurred during that day or some story in the newspaper that troubled him.

CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2004 2004

Don struggled to explain how little and how much "shucks" could mean.

Between Planets Heinlein, Robert A. 1951

_ Told the children yesterday that I wanted them to bring me some corn "shucks," as they call them, which are all left on the stalks in the fields.

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

If we had ep-p-zu-dit we used different things to make tea out of, such as shucks, cow chips, hog hoofs, cow hoofs.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

British baronets don't say 'sure,' 'shucks' or vamoose. '

Malcolm Sage, Detective Herbert George Jenkins 1899

But that it amounts to more than "shucks," despite the footman's epigram, is presently apparent when the staff-officer comes more slowly back, easing his panting horse.

A War-Time Wooing A Story Charles King 1888

She eyed it furtively, then sniffed it suspiciously, but finally discovered that it bore some relation to her native "shucks," when she fell to eagerly.

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879