Thesaurus / shuck
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That changed last week when Kennedy took his aw-shucks-country-boy-in-a-rumpled-suit shtick too far.
JOHN KENNEDY WENT FROM A DEMOCRAT TO THE GOP'S DISCOUNT JOE MCCARTHYMARGARET CARLSONNOVEMBER 23, 2021THE DAILY BEASTMy heart jump, my knees shuck, en my han' trimble; but I know I got ter git away fum dar.
FREE JOE AND OTHER GEORGIAN SKETCHESJOEL CHANDLER HARRISHe just stayed, and shuck hands with everybody, pleasant as a basket of chips; and he went home with David Gillespie.
THE LEATHERWOOD GODWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSHe was dredful glad to see me, an shuck my hand as ef he thought there warn't no feelin in it.
LETTERS OF MAJOR JACK DOWNING, OF THE DOWNINGVILLE MILITIASEBA SMITHFor the shuck, as I see it, is exclusiveness, which is not valuable except to persons justly doubtful of their own merits.
ATLANTIC CLASSICSVARIOUSHer 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 OVINGTONWal, don't you know that if they had a bin hereabouts, a squirrel wouldn't a sot down there to shuck a nut?
SHADOWS OF SHASTAJOAQUIN MILLERShuck′er, one who shucks; Shuck′ing, the act of taking off the shuck: a shucking-bee.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUS"We'd better light a shuck out o' here," said Gurley, visibly disturbed.
OH, YOU TEX!WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINEOne corn-shuck hat, made for a "Confederate bride" of the Neck, was trimmed with flowers made of small white feathers.
THE STRONGHOLDMIRIAM HAYNIEWORDS RELATED TO SHUCK
- bamboozle
- beat
- beguile
- bilk
- bleed
- bunco
- burn
- caboodle
- chisel
- con
- cozen
- crib
- cross
- deceive
- defraud
- delude
- diddle
- do
- do a number on
- double-cross
- double-deal
- dupe
- fast talk
- finagle
- fleece
- flimflam
- fudge
- give bum steer
- gouge
- gyp
- hoodwink
- hose
- jerk around
- milk
- mislead
- pull one's leg
- ream
- rip off
- rook
- rope in
- sandbag
- scam
- screw
- shaft
- short
- shuck
- skin
- snow
- stiff
- sucker
- swindle
- take
- take for a ride
- take in
- take out
- trick
- trim
- two-time
- victimize
- bilk
- bluff
- boondoggle
- catch
- cheat
- chicane
- con
- con game
- confidence game
- cover-up
- crock
- decoy
- device
- dodge
- fallacy
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- feint
- fib
- fraud
- gimmick
- hoax
- hogwash
- hustle
- illusion
- imposture
- jive
- lie
- malarkey
- mare's-nest
- pretext
- ride
- ruse
- scam
- sham
- shift
- shuck
- snare
- snow job
- stall
- sting
- story
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- trap
- trick
- whitewash
- wile
- wrinkle
- baffle
- be beyond someone
- beat around the bush
- bilk
- circumvent
- confound
- cop out
- ditch
- dodge
- double
- duck
- eschew
- evade
- flee
- fly
- foil
- frustrate
- get around
- get away from
- give the runaround
- give the slip
- give wide berth to
- hem and haw
- not touch
- outrun
- outwit
- pass the buck
- pass up
- puzzle
- run around
- shirk
- shuck
- shun
- shy
- stall
- stay shy of
- steer clear of
- stonewall
- stump
- thwart
- baffled
- beat around the bush
- bilked
- circumvented
- confounded
- copped out
- ditched
- dodged
- doubled
- ducked
- eschewed
- evaded
- fled
- flew
- foiled
- frustrated
- gave the runaround
- gave the slip
- gave wide berth to
- got around
- got away from
- hem and haw
- not touched
- outran
- outwitted
- passed the buck
- passed up
- puzzled
- ran around
- shied
- shirked
- shucked
- shunned
- stalled
- stayed shy of
- steered clear of
- stonewalled
- stumped
- thwarted
- was beyond someone
- beat around the bush
- beg the question
- blow hot and cold
- cavil
- cloud the issue
- cop a plea
- cop out
- cover up
- dodge
- double-talk
- elude
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- falsify
- fence
- fib
- flip-flop
- fudge
- give the runaround
- hedge
- hem and haw
- jive
- lie
- mince words
- palter
- parry
- pass the buck
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- run around
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- sit on the fence
- stonewall
- tell white lie
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- waffle
- weasel
- avoid
- baffle
- balk
- beat around bush
- beg the question
- bypass
- cavil
- circumvent
- conceal
- confuse
- cop out
- deceive
- decline
- dodge
- double
- duck
- elude
- equivocate
- escape
- eschew
- fence
- fend off
- flee
- fly
- fudge
- get around
- give the runaround
- hedge
- hide
- keep distance
- lay low
- lead on a merry chase
- lie
- parry
- pass up
- pretend
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- put off
- shift
- shirk
- shuck
- shuffle
- shun
- shy
- sidestep
- slip out
- sneak away
- steer clear of
- tergiversate
- trick
- waffle
- weasel
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