What's the difference between shack and shuck?

Shack


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
  • (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  • (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
  • (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  • (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
  • (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
  • (2) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
  • (3) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
  • (4) OK, so it wouldn't beat London's MeatLiquor in a fight, but it'd certainly knock seven shades out of Shake Shack and Five Guys with both hands tied behind its back.
  • (5) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
  • (6) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
  • (7) Back then, as is now the case, Germany was governed by a “grand coalition”: the two biggest parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, had shacked up.
  • (8) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
  • (9) Dozens more were injured, robbed and driven from their shacks at Bitter Creek.
  • (10) An old worker, laid off on the eve of retirement, reluctantly opens a love shack for illicit couples.
  • (11) He had a seaside shack with one bedroom containing a solid silver four-poster bed.
  • (12) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
  • (13) Momepele currently lives in a shack in the eNsimbini settlement in Chesterville, near Durban.
  • (14) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
  • (15) We walked past field after field of strawberries, and clusters of wooden shacks.
  • (16) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
  • (17) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
  • (18) Three Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (PLCs) were used to capture and transfer the charting by phone into the hospital information system (HIS).
  • (19) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
  • (20) Their children and grandchildren still live in these shacks, held together with salvaged tin and timber.

Shuck


Definition:

  • (n.) A shock of grain.
  • (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
  • (n.) The shell of an oyster or clam.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
  • (2) A Vodafone spokesperson was probably all like: "Aw, shucks!"
  • (3) I don't think there's any arrogance or any aw shucks kind of cockiness.
  • (4) It feels charmingly apt that when Tom Hanks – simultaneously one of the biggest movie stars in the world for the past 20 years and also famously one of most "aw, hell, shucks" normal men around – is talking about "the most fascinating days of my life", he is not referring to when he acted in zero gravity in Apollo 13 , the time he became only the second actor in history to win back to back Oscars, or even learning to dance on a giant piano in Big.
  • (5) To study the extent of the hazard presented by oysters contaminated with virus, samples of whole and shucked Pacific oysters contaminated with 10(4) PFU of poliovirus Lsc-2ab per ml were heat processed in four ways: by stewing, frying, baking, and steaming.
  • (6) I don’t mean nice in the “Aw shucks, little ol’ me?” hokey Tom Hanks kind of nice .
  • (7) At the top of the main street I saw an old lady shucking maize into a bucket, wearing the long braids and bowler hat typical of Andean women.
  • (8) The survival of this pathogen in both shellstock and shucked oysters suggests a potential for human illness, even though the product is refrigerated.
  • (9) Samples of whole and shucked Pacific and Olympia oysters, contaminated with 10(4)-plaque-forming units (PFU) of poliovirus Lsc-2ab per ml, were held refrigerated at two temperatures, 5 and - 17.5 C. To study the survival of virus in the oysters under these conditions, samples were assayed for virus content at weekly intervals for as long as 12 weeks.
  • (10) There they go, setting their bag on their bed, ready to shuck it on and – on it goes on the front!
  • (11) Joy Ferneyhough, a Banco Espírito Santo analyst, suggested insurers could face up to $15bn of claims, while James Shuck of Jefferies Research argued that a $10bn hit was more likely.
  • (12) Little change in the total bacterial counts was observed in shellstock oysters at any of the test temperatures, whereas incubation at the higher temperatures (17 and 22 degrees C) resulted in large increases in total counts in shucked oysters.
  • (13) This case report illustrates how A hydrophila may survive prolonged freezing and how seafood shucking may cause sepsis.
  • (14) On the outer atoll of Arno, families work together every day, six days a week, collecting fallen drupes, removing the husks, skilfully shucking the flesh (called copra) and drying it in makeshift ovens.
  • (15) "Well Valerie I don't know," he answers, all wholesome aw-shucks-ness.
  • (16) These cases did not develop asthmatic attacks even through they engaged in oyster shucking work and no symptomatic therapy was indicated.
  • (17) The world has been her oyster; it's just that she has sometimes opted not to shuck it.
  • (18) He’s got a really great future.” With his departure from the race, Rubio leaves the aw-shucks John Kasich campaign to stand alone against the sucker-punch Trump campaign.
  • (19) Identical experiments with shucked oysters showed a more rapid decrease in V. vulnificus.
  • (20) MIKE HUCKABEE Former governor of Arkansas He brings to the nomination race the aw-shucks, populist demeanour of a southern preacher.