Thesaurus / shuck

shuck

How to use shuck in a sentence

That changed last week when Kennedy took his aw-shucks-country-boy-in-a-rumpled-suit shtick too far.

My heart jump, my knees shuck, en my han' trimble; but I know I got ter git away fum dar.

He just stayed, and shuck hands with everybody, pleasant as a basket of chips; and he went home with David Gillespie.

THE LEATHERWOOD GODWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

He was dredful glad to see me, an shuck my hand as ef he thought there warn't no feelin in it.

For the shuck, as I see it, is exclusiveness, which is not valuable except to persons justly doubtful of their own merits.

Her face was so thin her eyes stood out like a bird's, and her cheek was the color of an old shuck of corn.

THE SHADOWMARY WHITE OVINGTON

Wal, don't you know that if they had a bin hereabouts, a squirrel wouldn't a sot down there to shuck a nut?

Shuck′er, one who shucks; Shuck′ing, the act of taking off the shuck: a shucking-bee.

"We'd better light a shuck out o' here," said Gurley, visibly disturbed.

OH, YOU TEX!WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE

One corn-shuck hat, made for a "Confederate bride" of the Neck, was trimmed with flowers made of small white feathers.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985