name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
shuck
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʃʌk/
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Ireland, Northern-England: /ʃʊk/
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rhymes with -ʌk
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homophone: shook (without the foot-strut split)
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CMU ARPABET: SH AH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A fraud; a scam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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noun
Meaning 4
A phony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 5
A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: European
Topics: arts, folklore, history, human-sciences, literature, media, publishing, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: padfoot, shriker
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Shall we shuck walnuts?
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verb
Meaning 7
To remove (any outer covering).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 9
To fool; to hoax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang, transitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To shake; shiver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
Meaning 11
To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
Meaning 12
To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
Meaning 14
To walk at a slow trot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 15
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chaff, husk, stalk, straw, stubble
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plant material, plant substance
Narrower terms: bran
verb
Meaning 16
remove the shucks from
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- shuck corn
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
verb
Meaning 17
remove from the shell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- shuck oysters
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
History
Etymology
* As an English surname, from Old English scucca (“evil spirit”). * As a German andJewish surname, Americanized from Schuck.
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).
Possibly from Middle English shucke, schucke (“demon, monster”), from Old English sċucca (“an evil spirit”).
From a dialectal variant of shock.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: slupka — shell or husk
- Czech: lusk — shell or husk
- Czech: skořápka — shell or husk
- Bulgarian: вадя от черупката (vadja ot čerupkata) — to remove the shuck from
- Catalan: desgranar — to remove the shuck from
- Catalan: esgranar — to remove the shuck from
- Czech: vyloupnout — to remove the shuck from
- Czech: rozlousknout — to remove the shuck from
- Czech: loupat — to remove the shuck from
- French: décortiquer — to remove the shuck from
- French: écailler — to remove the shuck from
- French: écosser — to remove the shuck from
- Galician: escochar — to remove the shuck from
- Galician: esconchar — to remove the shuck from
- Māori: pāoraora — to remove the shuck from
- Māori: tiora — to remove the shuck from
- Māori: kōwhā — to remove the shuck from
- Russian: очищать (očiščatʹ) — to remove the shuck from
- Spanish: descascar — to remove the shuck from
- Spanish: descascarar — to remove the shuck from
- Spanish: descascarillar — to remove the shuck from
- Spanish: mondar — to remove the shuck from
- Spanish: desconchar — to remove the shuck from
- Bulgarian: обелвам (obelvam) — to remove
- Czech: sundat si — to remove
- Czech: sundat — to remove
- Czech: shodit ze sebe — to remove
- Bulgarian: баламосвам (balamosvam) — to fool; to hoax