What's the difference between shocker and shucker?
Shocker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Van Deusen, an analyst with Tigress Financial Partners, said: “They did say they would be cutting jobs, but the magnitude of them is definitely a shocker.” A number of global oil companies such as BP and ConocoPhillips have cut jobs after a fall of nearly 60% in oil prices over the past six months.
(2) The second shocker also showcased the Globes’s more offbeat taste: two big wins (best comedy series, best actor for Donald Glover) for Atlanta, about the city’s rap scene.
(3) Anyway, take it from me, the Arsenal man is having another shocker.
(4) Next came the enfant terrible of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), the late-60s comic sensation, dubbed "a wild blue shocker" by Life magazine.
(5) Hardly a week passes without Hodge's committee uncovering some new pay shocker that the Treasury has ignored.
(6) For your amazing, illustrious career of defying stereotypes – and most of all, for showing how to best use Twitter and shut up trolls who still have not learned that – shocker!
(7) Marcelo has been caught out of position time and again and Maicon and Dante are both having the mother of all shockers: missing some tackles and lunging carelessly into others.
(8) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
(9) ::goes to make coffee:: Oh look, what a shocker, Gonzalez strikes out Adam Wainwright.
(10) Though in evident pain, García was not seriously injured and was able to continue, yet Whelan's unpunished tackle was much more of a shocker than the recent one involving Kompany that hurt no one and led to the Manchester City captain being dismissed.
(11) The Wichita State Shockers , who surprisingly made the Final Four last year, won’t be flying under the radar this time around as the still-undefeated Shockers top the Midwest Region with a shock- er, um, impressive 34-0 record.
(12) Brian Murphy, head of lending at mortgage broker Mortgage Advice Bureau, said: "September's figures are a shocker – down on August, usually the quietest month of the year, down on last September when we were still in the grips of recession, and no sign of the traditional post-summer bounce in mortgage activity, which doesn't bode well for the rest of the year and early 2011."
(13) You can sit down and say, ‘I’ve had a shocker of a day.’ People do want to help.” She spends a lot of her time now visiting schools because – wait for it – she is writing a book about “character education”.
(14) He could not rely on it to go right, and was something of a scatter gun, combining the odd brilliant throw with a series of shockers that threatened anyone unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of the infield.
(15) PwC's 2010 study in econometrics also came up with this shocker: "England remain a good bet for reaching the quarter-finals."
(16) The AEC, it must be said, has had a shocker of a year.
(17) Civil servants next: Porritt says working in Whitehall after years in business and non-governmental organisation groups such as Friends of the Earth and Forum for the Future has been a real shocker.
(18) Indeed, last week he brought forth some shockers of his own.
(19) Children's contained fewer shockers than last time , though Match of the Day might be in the relegation zone with a 20% fall.
(20) "Although in the this tournament, one never knows..." He's on three or more goals on this match Richard, he may yet be smiling ... 79 min Arshavin, who has had a shocker tonight, has a rare touch on the ball ... but his cross goes about 10 yards over Pavlyuchenko.