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shuck

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5 lettersPronunciation /ʃʌk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted chksuStarts with SEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. remove the shucks from

Word origin

Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks.
  • Shall we shuck walnuts?
  • I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.

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