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US
/ˈʃəks/
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[ UK /ʃˈʌks/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈʌks/ ]
NOUN
-
something of little value
his promise is not worth a damn
not worth one red cent
not worth shucks - 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.’