shucks
pronunciation
How to pronounce shucks in British English:
UK [ʃʌks]
How to pronounce shucks in American English:
US [ ʃʌks]
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- Noun:
- something of little value
- an expression of disappointment or irritation
Word Origin
- shucks (interj.)
- expression of indifference, 1847, from shuck (n.) in the secondary sense "something valueless" (i.e. not worth shucks, attested in a separate source from 1847).
Example
- 1. Shucks , you can 't rely on your intuitions .
- 2. Shucks , I can take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them for caviar .
- 3. Shucks , I wish I could have gone to the party with martha .
- 4. Shucks you can 't rely on your intuitions .
- 5. Aw shucks , you shouldn 't have ...... I couldn 't possibly accept .