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shuck 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Exclamation
/SHək/,
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shucks, plural;
  1. Used to express surprise, regret, irritation, or, in response to praise, self-deprecation
    • - “Thank you for getting it.” “Oh, shucks, it was nothing.”
Verb
  1. Remove the shucks from corn or shellfish
    • - shuck and drain the oysters
  2. Take off (a garment)
    • - she shucked off her nightdress and started dressing
  3. Abandon; get rid of
    • - the regime's ability to shuck off its totalitarian characteristics
  4. Cause (someone) to believe something that is not true; fool or tease

Noun
  1. An outer covering such as a husk or pod, esp. the husk of an ear of corn

  2. The shell of an oyster or clam

  3. The integument of certain insect pupae or larvae

  4. A person or thing regarded as worthless or contemptible
    • - William didn't dig the idea at all and said it was a shuck
  1. remove from the shell; "shuck oysters"
  2. chaff: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
  3. (shucks) damn: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks"
  4. (shucks) an expression of disappointment or irritation
  5. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts); A fraud; a scam; A phony; To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.); To remove (any outer covering); To fool; to hoax
  6. (shucks) Exclamatory response to a minor disappointment; Response to a minor pleasure; A receding or mock expression of thanks
  7. (shucking) A process of opening shellfish, such as oysters, clams, mussels, etc.
  8. to remove the shells from clams and oysters; also to remove the husks from corn
  9. Outer pod or husk. One of those not so commonly used gardening terms that are just fun to know.
  10. A phantom black dog with glowing yellow eyes. Hikers in the British Isles who encounter this spectral creature by lonely roadsides and paths are said to be doomed to die within a year of the sighting. ...
  11. The word used to describe the action of opening an oyster shell with an oyster shucking knife.
  12. cartilaginous sea predator
  13. To separate the muscle or meat of shellfish from the shell. Insert a short, blunt knife or can opener near the hinge of the shell. Pry open until the hinge is broken, then slip the knife around the shell cutting the muscles that attach the meat to the shell.