shuck
/ʃʌk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
Slang; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks."
- "Shall we shuck walnuts?"
- "I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool."
- "[...] but what had actually happened was that the wheel of one of the coaches became detached from its axle, or, in the more expressive American argot, the train "shucked off a wheel near Everett.""
Etymology
Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).