Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shuckish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
shuck-ish
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Causing one to shiver, cold

adj

Unpleasant; unsettled, windy, showery

Etymology

From dialectal shuck (“to shake, shiver”) + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more shuckish (comparative) most shuckish (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

shucken shucky

Questions

What does shuckish mean?
Causing one to shiver, cold
Where does shuckish come from?
From dialectal shuck (“to shake, shiver”) + -ish.

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