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shuck

1  [shuhk]
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–noun
1. a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
2. Usually, shucks. Informal. something useless or worthless: They don't care shucks about the project.
3. the shell of an oyster or clam.
–verb (used with object)
4. to remove the shucks from: to shuck corn.
5. to remove or discard as or like shucks; peel off: to shuck one's clothes.
6. Slang. to get rid of (often fol. by off): a bad habit I couldn't shuck off for years.
–interjection
7. shucks, Informal. (used as a mild exclamation of disgust or regret.)
Origin:
1665–75; orig. uncert.

Related forms:
shucker, noun

shuck

2  [shuhk]
–verb (used with object) Slang.
to deceive or lie to.
Origin:
1955–60; orig. uncert.; perh. from exclamation shucks! (see shuck 1 ) taken as a feigned sign of rural ignorance or a sham apology
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shuck   (shŭk)   
n.  

    1. A husk, pod, or shell, as of a pea, hickory nut, or ear of corn.

    2. The shell of an oyster or clam.

  2. Informal Something worthless. Often used in the plural: an issue that didn't amount to shucks.

tr.v.   shucked, shuck·ing, shucks

  1. To remove the husk or shell from.

  2. Informal To cast off: shucked their coats and cooled off; a city trying to shuck a sooty image.

interj.   shucks (shŭks)
Used to express mild disappointment, disgust, or annoyance.

[Origin unknown. Interj., alteration of shit.]
shuck'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
shuck [ʃək]

  1. n.
    an insincere person. : The guy's a shuck. Don't believe a thing he says!
  2. tv. & in.
    to kid someone; to tease someone. : Cool it! I'm just shucking.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

shuck  (v.)
1819, "to remove the shucks from," from noun (1674) meaning "husk, pod, shell," Amer.Eng., of unknown origin. Interjection shucks is 1847, from sense of "something valueless" (not worth shucks). Many extended senses are from the notion of "stripping" an ear of corn, or from the capers associated with husking frolics.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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