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Example sentences from the Web for shucksChris Stein of Blondie catches Ramone with an “aw, shucks” expression just after he drops a plate of food. ‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings|Melissa Leon|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST I was sort of middle-American “aw, shucks” guy for a big part of my career, so the extrovert is always fun. Tony's Reluctant Host|Miriam Datskovsky|June 3, 2009|DAILY BEAST The shredder and husker turns the hitherto useless cornstalk into food, and at the same time husks, or shucks, the corn. Agriculture for Beginners|Charles William Burkett Of course, if you'd been brash and ignorant in your first calculations—if you'd made a fool of yourself at the start—but shucks! The Spenders|Harry Leon Wilson
After supper was have corn shuckings, or on rainy days, and sometimes we shucks 500 bushels. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves|Work Projects Administration Dey had dirt floors and beds dat was made out of co'n shucks or straw. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves|Work Projects Administration The pecan trees were tall, somewhat like maples, with the nuts growing on them in shucks, after the manner of walnuts. Dotty Dimple Out West|Sophie May
/ (ʃʌks) US and Canadian informal / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shucks ON THESAURUS.COM
pl nsomething of little value (esp in the phrase not worth shucks) interjectionan exclamation of disappointment, annoyance, etc Words nearby shucksShubert, Shubra al Khaymah, shuck, shucking, shucking and jiving, shucks, shudder, shuddering, Shudra, shuffle, shuffleboard Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shucksshed, shell, peel, remove, husk, strip, discard, pod, ditch, jettison, worthless |