shucks
IPA: ʃˈʌks
noun
- an expression of disappointment or irritation
- something of little value
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Examples of "shucks" in Sentences
- Corn shucks were stored on the ground floor.
- British baronets don't say 'sure,' 'shucks' or vamoose. '
- Oh yeah, and it doesn't go without saying: "shucks" for the praise...
- Don struggled to explain how little and how much "shucks" could mean.
- If we had ep-p-zu-dit we used different things to make tea out of, such as shucks, cow chips, hog hoofs, cow hoofs.
- I used the word "shucks" did you notice ? an American word, to offer a hand of friendship across the sea as it were.
- _ Told the children yesterday that I wanted them to bring me some corn "shucks," as they call them, which are all left on the stalks in the fields.
- She eyed it furtively, then sniffed it suspiciously, but finally discovered that it bore some relation to her native "shucks," when she fell to eagerly.
- But that it amounts to more than "shucks," despite the footman's epigram, is presently apparent when the staff-officer comes more slowly back, easing his panting horse.
- POWELL: The most I ever saw him do is maybe say, "shucks" over some particular problem that had occurred during that day or some story in the newspaper that troubled him.
- But you must remember me only the other day you reprimanded me for a posting I made about your American friend,I in return used the American word "shucks" in a comment as a gesture of friendship,remember me now ?
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