shuckn.1
Obsolete exc. dialect.† 1. A devil, fiend. Obsolete.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun]
hell-devileOE
shuckc888
ghosteOE
devilOE
warlockOE
angelOE
unwighta1200
beastc1225
ragmanc1400
Satanasc1426
diabolic1502
ruffy1502
Satan?1545
Avernal?1548
fallen angel?1587
rebel angel1623
deedle1653
blackamoor1663
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §6 Ða wyrd he þonne wyrcð..ðurh þara scuccena mislice lotwrencas.
OE Beowulf 939 Þæt hie wideferhð leoda landgeweorc laþum beweredon scuccum ond scinnum.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 10 Ða cwæð se hælend to him, gang þu sceocca on-bæc.
a1225 Juliana 56 Ant tu þat schucke art schucken [v.r. shuken] herien ant heien.
c1230 Hali Meid. 59 Þen laðe vnwiht, þe hellene schucke.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3408 Swa vuele he luuede his lif. þat þe Scucke hine i-fenge.
2. dialect. A spectre hound.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > in animal form
gytrash1847
wish-hounds1847
shuck1850
1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. I. 468 Shuck the Dog-fiend. This phantom I have heard many persons in East Norfolk..describe as having seen as a black shaggy dog, with fiery eyes.
1893 Daily News 28 Sept. 4/7 Mr. F. A. Paley was not uneducated..yet he saw Shuck!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
shuckn.2
/ʃʌk/, U.S. /ʃək/ Chiefly dialect and U.S.
1.
a. A husk, pod, or shell; esp. the outer covering or strippings of Indian corn, chestnuts, hickory nuts, etc. See corn-shuck n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] > pod, husk, or siliqua
shalec825
hullc1000
codOE
hud1398
hulk1398
pod1553
shell1561
shuck1674
orme1688
siliqua1704
kida1722
hose-husk1728
silicula1760
silicle1785
silique1785
silicule1793
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > stook or cock
shockc1325
cocka1398
stook14..
poukera1450
haycockc1470
cop1512
stitch1603
pook1607
grass cock1614
hattock1673
stuckle1682
cocklet1788
coil?a1800
lap-cock1802
shuck1811
button1850
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 77 A Shuck: an husk or shell; as Bean-shucks, Bean-shells, per Anagramatismum τοῦ Husk forte.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. i. 20 The Shucks of Almonds dried and beaten to Powder.
1811 Massachusetts Spy 12 June 4/3 The straw and the shucks, after the stacks are in, will bestow a cover on them impenetrable to drought.
1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) vii. 66 Looking about as digestible as..a chesnut shuck.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 45 Shucks are very much prized at the South as fodder for cattle.
1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka vi. 55 Ill-fitting as the shuck on a dried cob.
b. A fruit skin.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > parts of > skin or roughening of skin
rindeOE
skina1398
peel?a1450
pill1530
shell1561
peeling1598
sloughc1660
russet1817
epicarp1819
exocarp1845
russeting1851
shuck1869
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. vii. 40 Three hundred thousand bees and wasps Found her [sc. a fig] out, feasted on her to the shuck.
c. The shell of an oyster or clam.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > shell of
oyster shelleOE
flake1577
onion-shell1753
shuck1881
1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 248.
d. The shell-like covering of some larvæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > parts of > covering
indusium1832
shuck1886
1886 Field 23 Jan. 104/1 To secure the swiftly darting larvæ..before emerging from the ‘shuck’.
e. to light a shuck: to leave in a hurry, to hurry away.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1905 Dial. Notes 3 86 Light a shuck, to go in a hurry, to move on, to keep away from danger.
1938 in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) III. i. 459 He jumped outen the water and lit a shuck for camp.
1947 True Nov. 108/2 But the Espinosas lit a shuck for the mountains.
1971 J. V. Allen Cowboy Lore iv. 71 So he saddled up old Chaw one night and lit a shuck this way.
2. As a type of something valueless.
a. gen.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > types of
eggshell1550
new nothing1577
earth?1592
shuck1851
putty medal1893
garbage can1922
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters III. iii. 36 They'd whip us to shucks on the parairer [= prairie].
1859 H. D. Beecher & E. D. Proctor Life Thoughts 2nd Ser. 120 They [sc. infidels] shake and rend His truths until they think that they have destroyed them, but they have only cleared them of the shuck.
1890 Nature 20 Feb. 376 That record—a mere dry shuck, emptied of nearly all that makes natural history delightful.
1897 Cent. Mag. Aug. 591 That's the biggest shuck and the littlest nubbin I ever did see.
b. in negative phrase, esp. in not worth shucks = good for nothing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > of no worth
of no valure1483
not worth a whistlea1529
not worth a lousea1592
not worth shucks1843
1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 135 He ain't wuth shucks, and ef you don't lick him fur his onmannerly note, you ain't wuth shucks, nuther.
1868 All Year Round 10 Oct. 431 As for your being a furrener, it don't matter shucks.
1897 Outing 30 174/2 We couldn't parly-voo worth shucks.
1910 W. Churchill Mod. Chron. iii. x It don't amount to shucks, as we used to say in Missouri.
c. A mean or contemptible person.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base person > [noun]
houndOE
hinderlingc1175
whelpc1330
vilec1400
beasta1425
dog bolt1465
shake-rag1571
vassal1589
brock1607
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
slubberdegullion1612
baseling1618
shag1620
shab1637
slabberdegullion1653
whiffler1659
hang-dog1693
reptile1697
Nobodaddyc1793
skunk1816
spalpeen1817
tiger1827
soap-lock1840
shake1846
white mouse1846
sweep1853
shuck1862
whiffmagig1871
scrubber1876
ullage1901
jelly bean1905
heel1914
dirty dog1928
crud1932
crut1937
klunk1942
crudball1968
scumbag1971
bawbag1999
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. iii. 206 Fer such mean shucks ez creditors are all on Lincoln's side.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. A regular old shuck.
d. (See quot.)
ΚΠ
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 47 During the Civil War,..the original Blue Backs of the Confederacy..soon became known as Shucks, a name sufficiently significant of their evil repute as a circulating medium.
e. Nonsense, deception, sham.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]
falsec1000
fraudc1330
barrat1340
faitery1377
defraudc1450
trumpery1481
covin1487
defraudationc1503
knavery1528
conveyance1531
imposture1537
defrauding1548
cozenage1583
impostry1585
catch-dolt1592
gullery1598
coggery1602
gullage1607
charlatism1611
impostury1615
quacksalvery1617
mountebankery1618
imposition1632
imposturisma1634
blaflum1637
charlatanry1638
defraudment1645
mountebankism1649
impostorya1652
impostorism1652
imposturage1654
impostery1656
mountebank1657
imposing1659
quackery1675
quackism1722
empiricism1774
cross1802
charlatanism1804
practitionery1818
cozenry1829
humbuggery1831
trick1833
thimble-shift1834
thimble-shifting1834
thimbleriggery1841
humbuggism1842
quackhood1843
quacksalverism1864
razzle-dazzle1928
spivery1948
shuck1958
shucking and jiving1969
1958 G. Lea Somewhere there's Music 163 I know about double negative too, but that's a lot of shuck.
1959 Encounter June 43 Despite his rejection of marriage as middle-class ‘shuck’ (phoney), the Beatnik's Wedding is an important event.
1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 25 June 14/4 This is a good book and as they say in..Texas: ‘I'm not putting the shuck on you’ so get it and read it.
1980 A. Toffler Third Wave xix. 261 The recently graduated son..proclaims the nine-to-five job a degrading sham and a shuck.
3. plural as an interj. of contempt or indifference.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection]
prut?c1300
trutc1330
truptc1380
ahaa1400
tushc1440
puff1481
quotha?1520
ah?1526
ta ha1528
twish1577
blurt1592
gip1592
pish1592
tantia1593
(God) bless (also save) the mark1593
phah1593
marry come up1597
mew1600
pooh1600
marry muff1602
pew waw1602
ptish1602
pew1604
push1605
pshaw1607
tuh1607
pea1608
poh1650
pooh pooh1694
hoity-toity1695
highty-tighty1699
quoz?1780
indeed1834
shuck1847
skidoo1906
suck1913
zut1915
yah boo1921
pooey1927
ptui1930
snubs1934
upya1941
yah boo sucks1980
the mind > emotion > indifference > expression of indifference [interjection]
tah1675
shuck1847
malesh1913
1847 J. M. Field Drama in Pokerville 68 And Mr. Bagly was there…[to shoot] any gentleman who might say ‘shucks!’.
1885 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Feb. 557/2 ‘We can spare it’. ‘Oh, shucks, yes, we can spare it’.
1906 A. C. Gunter Prince in Garret ix. 220 ‘Shucks, I know girls better than you do’, was the ex-schoolmistress's reply.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
ΚΠ
1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson III. xl. 50 A shock-bed was spread for the lady.
1843 W. Frazier Jrnl. July (1930) 27 Our cargo..was a motley pile..from broken skillets, up to rickety bedsteads and shuck-mattresses.
1860 Knickerbocker June 613 We..enjoyed in common our shuck-mattress and scanty quilts.
1885 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Feb. 547/2 There's always cobs around about in a shuck tick, and they poke into you.
1888 E. Eggleston Graysons ix. 93 There were some shuck-bottom chairs, and a splint-bottom rocking-chair.
1888 E. Eggleston Graysons xxxi. 336 He drew up another shuck-bottomed chair.
1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 136 I want you shuck-sharks and crooks to get out of town.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
shuckv.1
intransitive. To shrink, draw back, hesitate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > shrink or recoil
wondec897
blencha1250
shunta1250
scurnc1325
blenka1330
blinka1400
startc1400
shrink1508
blanch1572
swerve1573
shruga1577
flinch1578
recoil1582
budgea1616
shucka1620
smay1632
blunk1655
shudder1668
resile1678
skew1678
reluctate1833
a1620 J. Dyke Divers Select Serm. (1640) 351 It was Gods price then; and they shukt not at it.
a1620 J. Dyke Divers Select Serm. (1640) 351 Those be the shuckings of earthly hearts.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xvii. 26) 138 To shew his prompt and present obedience, without shucking and hucking, without delays and consults.
1684 J. Bunyan Seasonable Counsel To Rdr. sig. A6 Those bitter pills, at which we so whinch and shuck.
a1688 J. Bunyan Saints' Knowl. in Wks. (1853) II. 11 Usually in these [afflictions], though they make us shuck whenever they come upon us, blessing coucheth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
shuckv.2
Originally and chiefly U.S.
1. transitive. To remove the shucks from (corn, etc.).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > remove husk
shalea1398
dehusk1566
unhusk1598
unshell1599
unshale1611
shell1694
hud1790
shuck1819
1819 W. Faux Jrnl. 16 Oct. in Memorable Days Amer. (1823) 211 Corn shucking means plucking the ears of Indian corn from the stalk.
1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 248 Shock, to open or ‘shuck’ clams or oysters.
1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 553 The average price paid for shucking raw oysters is 15 cents a gallon.
1888 E. Eggleston Graysons xxx. 324 To shuck out..eight or ten ears of corn.
2. transferred and figurative.
a. To remove, throw or strip off, get rid of (also occasionally used outside North America).
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (intransitive)]
stripa1225
unbusk1596
uncase1598
disapparela1605
undressa1625
disarray1678
unrig1693
disrobe1716
peel1785
tirr1787
unattire1791
shuck1848
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > get or be rid of
refusea1387
to be rid of (also on)c1450
beskyfte1470
to be, get shut of, (dialect) shut on?a1500
to claw off1514
get1558
to put away1577
to get rid of1591
quit1606
to get off with1719
ding1753
shoot1805
to stay shet of1837
shuck1848
shunt1858
shake1872
to dust off1938
1848 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Sketches Trav. 178 After shuckin out the passengers and baggage,..they tuck us down a steep hill to the steambote.
1856 Yale Literary Mag. 21 144 The cussed fever and ague had jist shucked his meat clean off.
a1860 A. B. Longstreet Southern Sk. 31 He'd shuck off his coat to fight.
1891 Cent. Mag. Nov. 62 They have never shucked their boyhood.
1966 Listener 3 Nov. 650/2 I regard it as a great fortune to have shucked off this amount of remorse about intellectual achievement.
1968 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 23 June vii. 1/1 That an actively practicing attorney..should ever be able to shuck them off long enough to produce a book..struck me as a most unlikely miracle.
1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 28 The deflector bag Filled with loose cases, shucked out.
1969 New Yorker 12 Apr. 86/2 Then the astronaut shucks the box from the tube, which he discards as a doctor might throw away the protective part of a syringe.
1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 July 725/1 The work of a British historian that shucks off the weight of this ponderous tradition.
1976 New Yorker 19 Apr. 98/2 Odd thing: Joanne, now living in Connecticut, has hung on to her Southern accent; the two others, both New Yorkers, have shucked theirs.
1978 Guardian Weekly 1 Jan. 18/4 Spanish boys and girls have shucked the race for money... Marriage and children are not a goal. Neither is wealth.
b. reflexive and intransitive. To slip out of one's clothes; to strip oneself.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (reflexive)]
stripa1225
spoila1382
unclothea1382
despoil1388
spoila1395
undighta1400
uncase1576
disrobe1581
unreadya1586
untire1597
devest1598
discasea1616
undressa1616
disvest1627
doff1697
tirr1787
unray1825
divest1848
undrape1869
unrind1872
shuck1897
1848 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Sketches Trav. 117 I shucked out of my old clothes.
1897 R. M. Johnston Old Times Mid. Georgia 37 Sam..shucked hisself out his workin'-clothes.
3.
a. transitive and intransitive. To deceive, fool or ‘kid’ (someone). slang.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > make a fool of [verb (intransitive)]
playa1382
to play off on1863
shuck1959
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, cheat, dupe [verb (transitive)]
belirtOE
bitruflea1250
begab1297
bobc1320
bedaffc1386
befool1393
mock1440
triflea1450
glaik?a1513
bedawa1529
fond?1529
allude1535
gulla1550
dolt1553
dor1570
poop1575
colt1579
foolify1581
assot1583
noddify1583
begecka1586
elude1594
wigeona1595
fool1598
noddy1600
fop1602
begull1605
waddle1606
woodcockize1611
bemocka1616
greasea1625
noddypoop1640
truff1657
bubble1668
cully1676
coaxc1679
dupe1704
to play off1712
noodle1769
idiotize1775
oxify1804
tomfool1835
sammyfoozle1837
trail1847
pipe lay1848
pigwidgeon1852
green1853
con1896
rib1912
shuck1959
1959 L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 25 I didn't shuck the customers enough to please the crook who was running the car lot.
1966 [see sense 2a]. 1969 S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xiii. 114 He soothed them and told them to go home..and he did not shuck. You either work at a cover or forget it.
1976 C. Weston Rouse Demon xviii. 88 You shucking me, man, I didn't get rid of nobody!
1979 Maclean's 4 June 6/3 The petulant Keith Jarrett is an example: ‘He's shucking.’
b. shucking and jiving: fooling. Cf. jive v. 1a. U.S. Black English.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]
falsec1000
fraudc1330
barrat1340
faitery1377
defraudc1450
trumpery1481
covin1487
defraudationc1503
knavery1528
conveyance1531
imposture1537
defrauding1548
cozenage1583
impostry1585
catch-dolt1592
gullery1598
coggery1602
gullage1607
charlatism1611
impostury1615
quacksalvery1617
mountebankery1618
imposition1632
imposturisma1634
blaflum1637
charlatanry1638
defraudment1645
mountebankism1649
impostorya1652
impostorism1652
imposturage1654
impostery1656
mountebank1657
imposing1659
quackery1675
quackism1722
empiricism1774
cross1802
charlatanism1804
practitionery1818
cozenry1829
humbuggery1831
trick1833
thimble-shift1834
thimble-shifting1834
thimbleriggery1841
humbuggism1842
quackhood1843
quacksalverism1864
razzle-dazzle1928
spivery1948
shuck1958
shucking and jiving1969
1966 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness (1973) 27 Yawhl jivin'…yawhl shuckin'.]
1969 H. R. Brown Die Nigger Die! ii. 25 I told him he should think about it, but I knew I was schuckin' and jivin'.
1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens v. 195 For many blacks, shuckin' and jivin' is a survival technique to avoid and stay out of trouble.
Derivatives
shucked adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [adjective] > having shell removed (of oysters)
shucked1886
1886 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1885 524/2 To fix the standard of measurement of shucked oysters in the State.
ˈshucker n. a person who shucks oysters or clams.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > opener of shellfish
sheller1694
shucker1872
1872 Golden Hours Sept. 397/1 The colored shuckers are considered the best because they will throw down a small oyster, and only open the large or medium-sized ones.
1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 553 Estimating the average amount made by the shuckers at $6 a week.
ˈshucking n.
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1819 W. Faux Jrnl. 16 Oct. in Memorable Days Amer. (1823) 211 My host had a large party..assembled to effect a corn shucking, something like an English hawkey, or harvest home.
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