Thesaurus / shuck
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He was successful without “bowing or scraping” or “shucking and jiving,” as it was called back then.
THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO SAY ABOUT BILL COSBYW. KAMAU BELLJANUARY 20, 2022TIMEThat 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 BEASTOn these plains, Shuck says, you can watch your dog run away for a week.
CAPPING METHANE-SPEWING OIL WELLS, ONE HOLE AT A TIMENICK EHLIJULY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMy 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)VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SHUCK
- be noncommittal
- beat around the bush
- blow hot and cold
- cop a plea
- cop out
- duck
- equivocate
- evade
- flip-flop
- fudge
- give the runaround
- hem and haw
- jive
- pass the buck
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- run around
- shilly-shally
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- sit on the fence
- stall
- stonewall
- temporize
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- waffle
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.