Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A husk, pod, or shell of a seed, nut, or fruit, such as a pecan or an ear of corn.
- noun A shell of a bivalve, such as an oyster or clam.
- noun The exoskeleton or pupal case of an insect larva or nymph, especially one that has been shed.
- noun Informal Something worthless.
- transitive verb To remove the husk or shell from.
- transitive verb To open the shell of (a bivalve).
- transitive verb Informal To cast off.
- interjection Used to express mild disappointment, disgust, or annoyance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove the husk, pod, or shell from: in the United States said especially of the husking of corn or the shelling of oysters.
- To take; strip: with off.
- noun A shock; a stook.
- noun A husk or pod: used especially of the epicarp of hickory-nuts and walnuts, the prickly involucre of chestnuts, etc., also, in England, of the pods of peas, etc., and, in some parts of the United States, of the husks of maize.
- noun The shell of the oyster.
- noun A case or covering, as that of the larva of a caddis-fly.
- noun The devil.
- A call to pigs.
- To shake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prev. Eng. A shock of grain.
- noun A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
- noun United States The shell of an oyster or clam.
- transitive verb To deprive of the shucks or husks
- transitive verb colloq. To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
shell orhusk , especially ofgrains (e.g. corn/maize ) or nuts (e.g.walnuts ). - noun slang, African American Vernacular A fraud; a
scam . - noun slang A
phony . - verb transitive To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- verb transitive To remove (any outer covering).
- verb transitive, intransitive, slang To fool; to
hoax .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove from the shell
- verb remove the shucks from
- noun material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Perhaps you can enlighten us Hillary supporters (who are slapping our foreheads over Cuomo's embarrassing use of the term shuck and jive) as to why she things that coming across as a racist and using racists in her campaign will help her win the nomination and the election.
Hillary Supporter Andrew Cuomo On Her NH Win: "You Can't Shuck And Jive" w/Press Corps 2009
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Make no mistake though that in the South the term shuck and jive is a reference to the stupidity of niggers.
Hillary Supporter Andrew Cuomo On Her NH Win: "You Can't Shuck And Jive" w/Press Corps 2009
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Aw de colored peoples wear wha 'dey call shuck hat den cause dey been make outer shuck.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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“It feels to me more like the Today show environment, where you can kind of shuck and jive a little bit.”
A Star is Reborn 2008
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“It feels to me more like the Today show environment, where you can kind of shuck and jive a little bit.”
A Star is Reborn 2008
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The trees were jarred daily from the time the calyx or "shuck" began to slip from the newly set fruit until the beetles had disappeared, or for at least four or five weeks.
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As cane bottoms were not so much in fashion as now most of the ladies preferred "shuck" bottoms.
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The regular price for a "shuck" bottom was fifty cents.
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The sport was very fine; and after spoiling the trees, Philetus was left to "shuck" and bring home a load of the fruit, while Fleda and Hugh took their way slowly down the mountain.
Queechy 1854
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Philetus was left to "shuck" and bring home a load of the fruit.
Queechy Susan Warner 1852
colwilson commented on the word shuck
"sure wasn't he that drunk he fell in the shuck" also spelled shugh
March 21, 2007
bilby commented on the word shuck
"This, then, was my bedroom and workroom. There were five beds in it, each with its own shapeless mattress made of coarse homespun and filled with corn shucks. The shucks were astonishingly noisy and the homespun was very hard on the skin, especially sunburnt skin, but the mattresses were always beautifully cool."
- 'The Madwoman's Underclothes', Germaine Greer.
March 26, 2008