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Shucks

noun

Something of little value. Synonyms: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, tinker's dam, tinker's damn. "Not worth one red cent" , "Not worth shucks"

An expression of disappointment or irritation.

Shuck

verb

(past & past part. shucked; pres. part. shucking)

Remove from the shell.

Remove the shucks from.

noun

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. Synonyms: chaff, husk, stalk, straw, stubble.

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"Shucks" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Shucks! no, don't you see he's aiming to reach the back of the cabin, where Lub's heaped up that stuff? He's meaning to climb on the roof! It must be Lub's fallen part-way down the old chimney, and stuck there. Hurry and let's get along to help ...

— Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys - The Birch Bark Lodge • Silas K. Boone

... things, and was lying right there ready to eat her, too, when she come along. So master timber wolf, he says, 'That's so I ken smell out things when I'm hunting.' Then that squaw, bein' curious-like, which is the way with wimminfolk, says, 'Shucks, gran'ma, but your tongue's that long you ain't room for it in your mouth.' That wolf gits riled then. Says he, 'That's so I ken taste the good things I eat.' Guess the squaw was plumb scared at that. She'd never heard her gran'ma say things like that. But she goes ...

— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum

... John," she cried. "You're a British baronet, and British baronets don't say 'sure,' 'shucks' or vamoose.' ...

— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins

... right; 'mosser' ain't it!" volunteered one of the hired men, who had lingered to hear the discussion. "I've heerd that word a thousan' times; right way seems like 'M'shoo.' Shucks! Can't get my tongue ...

— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

... "but if it wasn't for my corn shucks and the little bag in my back pocket, I couldn't live a minute." He took out his "makings," ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

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