shook
/ʃʊk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past of shake.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Rich. Alack, why am I ſent for to a King, Before I haue ſhooke off the Regall thoughts / Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet haue learn'd / To inſinuate,flatter,bowe,and bend my Knee."
- "Pray, assure the empress, from me, that, notwithstanding the councils which have shook the throne of her father and mother, I shall remain here, ready to save the sacred persons of the king and queen, and of her brothers and sisters ;[…]"
- "Although she could have just held it out and it would have shook by itself. His voice was having the same effect on her that the lead guitar on Chris Isaak's Wicked Game had."
- "Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook."
- "Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK.""
- "He wrote this long ass thing about how we're the next up and coming thing! I'm shook, I'm like 'What the hell?" and all the emails started coming in—Interscope, Capitol, Universal, it was this whole spiral."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʃʊk/
- British English: /ʃʊk/
Usage
Inflected Forms
shooks (plural)
shooks (present, singular)
shooking (participle, present)
shooked (participle, past)
shooked (past)
more shook (comparative)
most shook (superlative)