Definitions for shucking

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shucking shuck·ing

Spelling: [shuhk-ing]

IPA: /ˈʃʌk ɪŋ/

Shucking is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in shucking (cghiknsu).

Definitions for shucking

noun

1. husking.
2. a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
3. Usually, shucks. Informal. something useless or worthless:
4. the shell of an oyster or clam.

interjection

1. shucks, Informal. (used as a mild exclamation of disgust or regret.)

verb (used with object)

1. to remove the shucks from:
2. to remove or discard as or like shucks; peel off:
3. Slang. to get rid of (often followed by off):
4. to deceive or lie to.

Origin of shucking

shuck¹ + -ing¹

Examples for shucking

Of course the best practice is to wash the nuts immediately after shucking.

Numerous shanties of this sort are used for "shucking out" clams when marketed by the gallon.

The relative decrease in price as compared with Newburyport is due to the fact that shucking is not so extensively practised here.

A leaning log angled from the bank into the slough, and the surviving muskrat sat on it, shucking a fresh-water mussel.

He said that his "Old master paid him and his brother ten cents a day for cutting down corn and shucking it."

Only you must give me a sounder reason than my diverting conversational powers for shucking me.

shucking oysters is a particular skill and a task best approached clear-headed and with no distractions.

Sometimes after leaving the fields at dark they had to work at night—shucking corn, ginning cotton or weaving.

The contest was then begun with much gusto and the party first shucking its allotment declared the winner.

On his shoulder sat a squirrel, shucking chestnuts so that the shells fell upon his beard.