(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.