shuck
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L27057 on Wikidata ↗verb
- to strip of shucks
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ʃʌk/ / /ʃʊk/
name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from Old English scucca (“evil spirit”). * As a German andJewish surname, Americanized from Schuck.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English shucke, schucke (“demon, monster”), from Old English sċucca (“an evil spirit”).
- A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
verb
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of shock.
- To shake; shiver.
- To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
- To walk at a slow trot.