shuck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
    — There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks.
  2. A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore. European
  3. A fraud; a scam. slang
  4. A phony. slang
动词 v.
  1. To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.). transitive
    — Shall we shuck walnuts?
  2. To shake; shiver. dialectal
  3. To remove (any outer covering). transitive
    — I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
  4. To slither or slip, move about, wriggle. dialectal
  5. To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device. slang,transitive
  6. To do hurriedly or in a restless way. dialectal
  7. To fool; to hoax. intransitive,slang,transitive
  8. To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk. dialectal
  9. To walk at a slow trot. dialectal

词形变化

shucks plural shock alternative,dialectal shucks present,singular,third-person shucking participle,present shucked participle,past shucked past shock alternative,dialectal shucks present,singular,third-person shucking participle,present shucked participle,past shucked past shucks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cornshuck shuck pen shuck and jive shuck down shucker shuckery shucking knife shuck off unshucked shuckish shucky

词源

词源 1
Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).
词源 2
From a dialectal variant of shock.
词源 3
Possibly from Middle English shucke, schucke (“demon, monster”), from Old English sċucca (“an evil spirit”).
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