Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An interjection indicating contempt, especially a contemptuous rejection of some suggestion or remark: as, oh, shucks! I don't believe it.
Wiktionary
- interj. colloquial Exclamatory response to a minor disappointment.
- interj. colloquial, sarcastic Response to a minor pleasure.
- interj. colloquial A receding or mock expression of thanks.
- n. Plural form of shuck.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shuck.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an expression of disappointment or irritation
- n. something of little value
Examples
“I used the word "shucks" did you notice ? an American word, to offer a hand of friendship across the sea as it were.”
“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 ?”
“Oh yeah, and it doesn't go without saying: "shucks" for the praise...”
“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.”
“Don struggled to explain how little and how much "shucks" could mean.”
“_ 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.”
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
“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.”
“British baronets don't say 'sure,' 'shucks' or vamoose. ”
“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.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shucks’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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unemphasized interjections
technically interjections, but usually not part of any emotive exclamation
okey-doke, ho-hum, welp, big deal, bother, hmm, iunno, mmkay, nah, crumbs, bummer, pfft and 12 more...
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Expletive Mimicry
Words that sound like words you shouldn't use.
frak, feldergarb, dagummit, daggum, gosh, darn, golly, fiddleesticks, fudge, gee, dang, shoot and 36 more...
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Euphemisms for Curses
dang, darn, heck, shucks, shoot, dad gummit, dad burn it, gol dingit, sheesh, jeez, tarnation, consarn it and 8 more...
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Yoinks, Zoinks, & Zounds!
A collection of interjections and verbal ejaculations.
yoinks, zoinks, zounds, crikey, lawsy, oomph, unf, shazbot, lordy, mox nix, cosmic, no dice and 30 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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gosh darn it to heck!
gosh, darn, heck, shoot, nuts, rats, poop, poo poo, dang, fiddlesticks, wash it, frick and 11 more...
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exclamations
expletive, blimey, okey dokey, whatchamacallit, oops, ooh, sheesh, lo and behold, phew, golly, bam, yikes and 13 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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Watch Your Language, Young Man
Ahh, euphemisms. Every schoolkid's favorite pastime. They sound so naughty, but you can't really get in trouble for using them, can you?
darn, dang, shoot, shucks, flip, geez, gee whiz, golly, son of a gun, crud, shyster, holy schnikes and 58 more...
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maesepedro's Words
wit, dignity, river, funk, rhythm, embezzlement, schlock, phraseology, shucks, catch, exchequer, retrocessonaire and 70 more...
Tweets
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