Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shucker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables: shuck-er
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.

noun

Someone who shucks or removes something.

Humorous

noun

A device that shucks produce, such as a corn shucker.

Example Sentences

"“Bill was born near Des Moines, Iowa, and as a boy was knowed as the champion lightweight corn shucker of Hog Bristle County. […]”"
"Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters."
"The Kroger supermarket chain […] agreed to weigh out dieters as well as their vegetables. Some 12,000 hopeful pound shuckers herded through the chain’s groceries during the first weekend."
"Friends with powerful connections helped him get a corn shucker; he knows of 80 other farmers who are on the waiting list for those machines in a region that is to receive only four during the next two years."

Etymology

From shuck + -er.

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

shuckers (plural)

Derived Forms

cornshucker

Rhymes With

tucker fucker sucker trucker zucker pucker succour ducker smucker chucker mucker plucker

Questions

What does shucker mean?: Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.
Where does shucker come from?: From shuck + -er.

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