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Shucker

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shuck  (shk)
n.
1.
a. A husk, pod, or shell, as of a pea, hickory nut, or ear of corn.
b. The shell of an oyster or clam.
2. Informal Something worthless. Often used in the plural: an issue that didn't amount to shucks.
tr.v. shucked, shuck·ing, shucks
1. To remove the husk or shell from.
2. Informal To cast off: shucked their coats and cooled off; a city trying to shuck a sooty image.
interj. shucks (shks)
Used to express mild disappointment, disgust, or annoyance.
[Origin unknown. Interj., alteration of shit.]
shucker n.


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Such of them as still possess horses, and occasionally figure as hunters, are called Shoshonies; but there is another class, the most abject and forlorn, who are called Shuckers, or more commonly Diggers and Root Eaters.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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