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Synonyms for shuck

Grammar : Verb
Spell : shuhk
Phonetic Transcription : ʃʌk

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Définition of shuck

Origin :
  • "to remove the shucks from," 1819, from or related to shuck (n.). Related: Shucked; shucking.
  • Many extended senses are from the notion of "stripping" an ear of corn, or from the capers associated with husking frolics; e.g. "to strip (off) one's clothes" (1848) and "to deceive, swindle, cheat, fool" (1959); phrase shucking and jiving "fooling, deceiving" is suggested from 1966, in U.S. black English, but cf. shuck (v.) a slang term among "cool musicians" for "to improvise chords, especially to a piece of music one does not know" (1957), and shuck (n.) "a theft or fraud," in use by 1950s among U.S. blacks.
  • [B]lack senses probably fr[om] the fact that black slaves sang and shouted gleefully during corn-shucking season, and this behavior, along with lying and teasing, became a part of the protective and evasive behavior normally adopted towards white people in "traditional" race relations; the sense of "swindle" is perhaps related to the mid-1800s term to be shucked out, "be defeated, be denied victory," which suggests that the notion of stripping someone as an ear of corn is stripped may be basic in the semantics. ["Dictionary of American Slang"]
  • verb remove outer layer
Example sentences :
  • Now light a shuck back to Mobeetie an' write a report on it.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • “Yessir,” said Chief Multhaus, as he began to shuck his suit.
  • Extract from : « Unwise Child » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • He looked at Norie, moaning on the shuck tick bed, then at Jake.
  • Extract from : « Blue Ridge Country » by Jean Thomas
  • After the shuck has been removed the double nut is found, black as ebony.
  • Extract from : « Seven Legs Across the Seas » by Samuel Murray
  • For smoking purposes it is also open to the same criticisms that a shuck mattress is.
  • Extract from : « Europe Revised » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • It began to smoke and the serviceman began to shuck tools from his box.
  • Extract from : « Cue for Quiet » by Thomas L. Sherred
  • Anyway, once we're inside I shuck off the uniform and get out.
  • Extract from : « Lion Loose » by James H. Schmitz
  • Shuck addressed the magistrate, his tone one of injured innocence.
  • Extract from : « A Life's Secret » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Shuck, just answer me a question or two, as from man to man.
  • Extract from : « A Life's Secret » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • He shuck all over as he bid ten dollars, an' while the sheriff was yellin' 'Goin'!
  • Extract from : « Dixie Hart » by Will N. Harben

Antonyms for shuck

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