Definition of Shucking

1. Verb. (present participle of shuck) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shucking

1. the act of one that shucks [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shucking

shtupped
shtupping
shtups
shu'
shuangfengite
shubnikovite
shubunkin
shuck
shuck and jive
shuck down
shucked
shucked and jived
shucker
shuckers
shuckery
shucking (current term)
shucking and jiving
shuckings
shucks
shucks and jives
shud
shuddap
shudder
shuddered
shuddering
shudderingly
shudderings
shudders
shuddery
shuddup

Literary usage of Shucking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"( But you must hear of the corn-shucking. The one at which I was present was given on purpose that I might witness the humors of the Carolina negroes. ..."

2. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; the Folk-lore of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
"CORN-shucking SONG. OH, de fus news you know de day'll be a breakin'— (Hey 0 ! Hi 0 ! Up'n down de Bango !*) An' de fier be a burnin' en' de ash-cake a ..."

3. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1915)
"shucking and canning of oysters, 189. Prosperity of the oyster business after 1850, 189. Oyster planting and culture, 190. The oyster industry in the South ..."

4. Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life by Marion Harland (1910)
"... OF CHANGES—A CORN-shucking—NEGRO TOPICAL SONG MY mother's love for Richmond was but second to that she felt for husband and children. ..."

5. Our Country: East (1898)
"This was the time for the corn-shucking. Large wagons were driven into the field of shocks, each of which usually contained the product of sixteen hills, ..."

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