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shucks

[ US /ˈʃəks/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈʌks/ ]
NOUN
  1. something of little value
    his promise is not worth a damn
    not worth one red cent
    not worth shucks
  2. an expression of disappointment or irritation

How To Use shucks In A Sentence

  • Shucks Bizrobrain [toe kicks dust like jimmy stewart] Think Progress » Tennessee Mosque Vandalized After Local TV Station Airs Irresponsible Report On ‘Homegrown Jihad’
  • This week actor Alan Rachins, better known as the balding popinjay Douglas Brackman of "L.A. Law," shucks his pinstripes for something more daring. He Left His Briefs Behind
  • He is tough, a fine leader despite his youth and aw-shucks grin.
  • Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial.
  • I used the word "shucks" did you notice ? an American word, to offer a hand of friendship across the sea as it were. Comment Registration: The Experiment Ends Early
  • Shucks, I done got plumb off from what I was tellin 'you jus' ravin ''bout my old furniture and things. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
  • With his gosh-darned, aw-shucks demeanor and disarming smile, he is able to insult entire ethnic groups without even realizing he's doing it.
  • Because he was worried about his diary - shucks, only a notebook, really - he took it with him. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • Between songs you get Chris talking straight to the camera, making goofy self-deprecating jokes in his aw-shucks kind of way.
  • He adds a characteristically aw-shucks postscript: ‘I have no way of justifying what I do, no temporal defence at all.’
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