shucks

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Hate to make her feel bad Oh, shucks," said Pete You're right--shucks.

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  1. An interjection indicating contempt, especially a contemptuous rejection of some suggestion or remark: as, oh, shucks! I don't believe it. [Vulgar, U. S.]

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  • Well, shucks, here I thought I could already do that .. —  tuxmachines.org - Do you waddle the waddle?
  • Ah shucks, these Republicans have such a vivid imagination. —  Think Progress
  • Hinde nanalong best picture ang Inagaw Mo Ang Lahat Sa Akin ng dahil si Maricel Soriiano ang bida. * shucks, sooo jologs talaga, hahahah* —  reyna elena dot com
  • It's astonishing to read how much money the McCain campaign and the GOP have spent to turn Governor Sarah Palin into an aw-shucks, Joe Six-packs, Soccer / Hockey mom, who is just like you and me. $150,000 for Ms. Palin's campaign wardrobe ($75K at Neiman Marcus and $50K at Saks Fifth Avenue!). $22,800 for her make-up and $10,000 for her hair (these last two expenses are just for October!)
  • I always loved ye better than any of the other gals--shucks!--whenst ye war about I never knowed ez they war alive Perhaps it was the after-glow of the sunset in the sky, but a crimson flush sprang into her delicate cheek; her eyes were evasive, quickly glancing here and there with an affectation of indifference, and she had no mind to talk of love, she declared But she should think of her gran'dad and gran'mam, he persisted. —  Una Of The Hill Country 1911
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  1. Prob. an exclamatory use of shucks, plural of shuck, used also to denote something worthless. It can hardly be an exclamatory use of shuck (‘the devil! the deuce!’), as that word became obsolete in early Middle English
 

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