Definitions for shucks

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Spelling: [shuhk]

IPA: /ʃʌk/

Shucks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in shucks (chkssu).

Definitions for shucks

noun

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

First recorded in 1665-75; origin uncertain

Examples for shucks

She has got a brother, but he don't amount to shucks—he ain't much more'n a three-spot.

shucks, sonny, no need to get this excited over a little spilt milk.

They yelled and we yelled back that they could not shoot worth "shucks."

I was sort of middle-American “aw, shucks” guy for a big part of my career, so the extrovert is always fun.

"Fine as silk," replied the sergeant from his own heap of shucks.

Why, he wouldn't amount to shucks here, even if he stayed a year.

Then he looked at the pump and he gave it a whack and he kicked at the spout and said "shucks!"

Chris Stein of Blondie catches Ramone with an “aw, shucks” expression just after he drops a plate of food.

I'll give you this straight: if I can't be corn, I won't be shucks.

But shucks, as for that, we can turn tricks on the way for money.