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▪ I. shuck, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 scucca, sceocca, 3 s(c)ucke, schucke, shuke.
[OE. scucca, perhaps f. root skuh- to terrify (cf. shy).]
†1. A devil, fiend. Obs.
Beowulf 939 (Gr.) Þæt hie wideferhð leoda landᵹeweorc laþum beweredon scuccum and scinnum. c888ælfred Boeth. xxxix. §6 Ða wyrd he þonne wyrcð..ðurh þara scuccena mislice lotwrencas. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. iv. 10 Ða cwæð se hælend to him, gang þu sceocca on-bæc. c1205Lay. 6838 Swa vuele he luuede his lif þat þe scucke hine i-fenge. a1225Juliana 56 Ant tu þat schucke art schucken [v.r. shuken] herien ant heien. c1230Hali Meid. 59 Þen laðe vnwiht, þe hellene schucke.
2. dial. A spectre hound.
1850N. & Q. Ser. i. I. 468 Shuck the Dog-fiend. This phantom I have heard many persons in East Norfolk..describe as having seen as a black shaggy dog, with fiery eyes. 1893Daily News 28 Sept. 4/7 Mr. F. A. Paley was not uneducated..yet he saw Shuck!
▪ II. shuck, n.2 Chiefly dial. and U.S.|ʃʌk|
Also shock.
[Origin unknown.]
1. a. A husk, pod, or shell; esp. the outer covering or strippings of Indian corn, chestnuts, hickory nuts, etc. See corn-shuck.
1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 77 A Shuck: an husk or shell; as Bean-shucks, Bean-shells, per Anagramatismum τοῦ Husk forte. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. i. 21 The Shucks of Almonds dried and beaten to Powder. 1811Mass. Spy 12 June 4/3 The straw and the shucks, after the stacks are in, will bestow a cover on them impenetrable to drought. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole vii, Looking about as digestible as..a chesnut shuck. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 45 Shucks are very much prized at the South as fodder for cattle. 1892Kipling & Balestier Naulahka 55 Ill-fitting as the shuck on a dried cob.
b. A fruit skin.
1872Browning Ring & Bk. vii. 840 Three hundred thousand bees and wasps Found her [sc. a fig] out, feasted on her to the shuck.
c. The shell of an oyster or clam.
1881Ingersoll Oyster-Industry 248.
d. The shell-like covering of some larvæ.
1886Field 23 Jan. 104/1 To secure the swiftly darting larvæ..before emerging from the ‘shuck’.
e. Phr. to light a shuck: to leave in a hurry, to hurry away.
1905Dialect Notes III. 86 Light a shuck, to go in a hurry, to move on, to keep away from danger. 1938in B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore (1949) III. i. 459 He jumped outen the water and lit a shuck for camp. 1947True Nov. 108/2 But the Espinosas lit a shuck for the mountains. 1971J. V. Allen Cowboy Lore iv. 71 So he saddled up old Chaw one night and lit a shuck this way.
2. As a type of something valueless.
a. gen. b. in negative phr., esp. in not worth shucks = good for nothing. c. A mean or contemptible person. d. (See quot.) e. Nonsense, deception, sham.
a.1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunters III. iii. 36 They'd whip us to shucks on the parairer [= prairie]. 1859Beecher Life Thoughts Ser. ii. 120 They [sc. infidels] shake and rend His truths until they think that they have destroyed them, but they have only cleared them of the shuck. 1890Nature 20 Feb. 376 That record—a mere dry shuck, emptied of nearly all that makes natural history delightful. 1897Century Mag. Aug. 591 That's the biggest shuck and the littlest nubbin I ever did see.
b.1847Robb Squatter Life 135 He ain't wuth shucks, and ef you don't lick him fur his onmannerly note, you ain't wuth shucks, nuther. 1868All Year Round 10 Oct. 431 As for your being a furrener, it don't matter shucks. 1897Outing XXX. 174/2 We couldn't parly-voo worth shucks. 1910Churchill Mod. Chron. iii. x, It don't amount to shucks, as we used to say in Missouri.
c.1862Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. iii. 206 Fer such mean shucks ez creditors are all on Lincoln's side. 1887Kentish Gloss., A regular old shuck.
d.1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 47 During the Civil War,..the original Blue Backs of the Confederacy..soon became known as Shucks, a name sufficiently significant of their evil repute as a circulating medium.
e.1958G. Lea Somewhere there's Music 163, I know about double negative too, but that's a lot of shuck. 1959Encounter June 43 Despite his rejection of marriage as middle-class ‘shuck’ (phoney), the Beatnik's Wedding is an important event. 1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 25 June 14/4 This is a good book and as they say in..Texas: ‘I'm not putting the shuck on you’ so get it and read it. 1980A. Toffler Third Wave xix. 261 The recently graduated son..proclaims the nine-to-five job a degrading sham and a shuck.
3. pl. as an interj. of contempt or indifference.
1847J. M. Field Drama in Pokerville 68 And Mr. Bagly was there{ddd}[to shoot] any gentleman who might say ‘shucks!’. 1885‘M. Twain’ in Century Mag. Feb. 557/2 ‘We can spare it’. ‘Oh, shucks, yes, we can spare it’. 1906Gunter Prince in Garret ix. 220 ‘Shucks, I know girls better than you do’, was the ex-schoolmistress's reply.
4. attrib. and Comb.
1835J. P. Kennedy Horse-Shoe Robinson xl, A shock⁓bed was spread for the lady. 1843W. Frazier Jrnl. July (1930) 27 Our cargo..was a motley pile..from broken skillets, up to rickety bedsteads and shuck-mattresses. 1860Knickerbocker Mag. June 613 We..enjoyed in common our shuck-mattress and scanty quilts. 1885‘M. Twain’ in Century Mag. Feb. 547/2 There's always cobs around about in a shuck tick, and they poke into you. 1887Eggleston Graysons ix, There were some shuck-bottom chairs, and a splint-bottom rocking-chair. 1888Ibid. xxxi, He drew up another shuck-bottomed chair. 1952A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 136 I want you shuck-sharks and crooks to get out of town.
▪ III. shuck, v.1
[Of obscure origin. Cf. the dial. shuck, to shiver, also to shirk (work).]
intr. To shrink, draw back, hesitate.
1620J. Dyke Sel. Serm. (1640) 351 It was Gods price then; and they shukt not at it. Ibid., Those be the shuckings of earthly hearts. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xvii. 26 To shew his prompt and present obedience, without shucking and hucking, without delays and consults. 1684Bunyan Seas. Counsel To Rdr. A 6 Those bitter pills, at which we so whinch and shuck. a1688― Saints' Knowl. Wks. 1853 II. 11 Usually in these [afflictions], though they make us shuck whenever they come upon us, blessing coucheth.
▪ IV. shuck, v.2 orig. and chiefly U.S.
Also shock.
[f. shuck n.2]
1. trans. To remove the shucks from (corn, etc.).
1819W. Faux Mem. Days (1823) 211 My host had a large party..assembled to effect a corn shucking, something like an English hawkey, or harvest home. Corn shucking means plucking the ears of Indian corn from the stalk. 1881Ingersoll Oyster-Industry (Fish. Industr. U.S.) 248 Shock, to open or ‘shuck’ clams or oysters. 1887Goode, etc. Fish. Industr. U.S. v. II. 553 The average price paid for shucking raw oysters is 15 cents a gallon. 1888Eggleston Graysons xxx, To shuck out..eight or ten ears of corn.
2. transf. and fig.
a. To remove, throw or strip off, get rid of (also occas. used outside N. Amer.).
1848Major Jones Sk. Travel 178 After shuckin out the passengers and baggage,..they tuck us down a steep hill to the steambote. 1856Yale Lit. Mag. XXI. 144 The cussed fever and ague had jist shucked his meat clean off. a1860A. B. Longstreet Southern Sk. 31 (Bartlett), He'd shuck off his coat to fight. 1891Century Mag. Nov. 62 They have never shucked their boyhood. 1966Listener 3 Nov. 650/2, I regard it as a great fortune to have shucked off this amount of remorse about intellectual achievement. 1968N.Y. Times Book Rev. 23 June vii. 1/1 That an actively practicing attorney..should ever be able to shuck them off long enough to produce a book..struck me as a most unlikely miracle. 1969G. Macbeth War Quartet 28 The deflector bag Filled with loose cases, shucked out. 1969New Yorker 12 Apr. 86/2 Then the astronaut shucks the box from the tube, which he discards as a doctor might throw away the protective part of a syringe. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 4 July 725/1 The work of a British historian that shucks off the weight of this ponderous tradition. 1976New Yorker 19 Apr. 98/2 Odd thing: Joanne, now living in Connecticut, has hung on to her Southern accent; the two others, both New Yorkers, have shucked theirs. 1978Guardian Weekly 1 Jan. 18/4 Spanish boys and girls have shucked the race for money... Marriage and children are not a goal. Neither is wealth.
b. refl. and intr. To slip out of one's clothes; to strip oneself.
1848Major Jones Sk. Travel 117, I shucked out of my old clothes. 1897R. M. Johnston Old Times in Middle Georgia 37 Sam..shucked hisself out his workin'-clothes.
3. a. trans. and intr. To deceive, fool or ‘kid’ (someone). slang.
1959L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 25, I didn't shuck the customers enough to please the crook who was running the car lot. 1966[see sense b below]. 1969S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xiii. 114 He soothed them and told them to go home..and he did not shuck. You either work at a cover or forget it. 1976C. Weston Rouse Demon xviii. 88 You shucking me, man, I didn't get rid of nobody! 1979Maclean's Mag. 4 June 6/3 The petulant Keith Jarrett is an example: ‘He's shucking.’
b. shucking and jiving: fooling. Cf. jive v. 1 a. U.S. Blacks.
[1966E. Bullins Theme is Blackness (1973) 27 Yawhl jivin'{ddd}yawhl shuckin'.] 1969H. R. Brown Die Nigger Die! ii. 25, I told him he should think about it, but I knew I was schuckin' and jivin'. 1974H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens v. 195 For many blacks, shuckin' and jivin' is a survival technique to avoid and stay out of trouble.
Hence shucked ppl. a.; ˈshucker, one who shucks oysters or clams; ˈshucking vbl. n. (see sense 1 above).
1872Golden Hours iv. 397/1 The colored shuckers are considered the best because they will throw down a small oyster, and only open the large or medium-sized ones. 1886Appleton's Ann. Cycl. 524/2 To fix the standard of measurement of shucked oysters in the State. 1887Goode, etc. Fish. Industr. U.S. v. II. 553 Estimating the average amount made by the shuckers at $6 a week.
▪ V. shuck
dial. form of shock n.1 |