different between huck vs shuck

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.

Verb

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw or chuck.

   He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.

   • 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"

     Mostly these portable toilets are just thin molded plastic […] But at construction sites, we sheet-metal the sides. Cladding, it's called. Otherwise, people come along and punch holes through them. […] Or kids will come along and huck rocks through the roofs, just to hear the sound it makes.

2. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
3. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
4. (transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee a long distance.
5. (intransitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
6. (mountain biking) To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.

   A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.

   If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.

7. (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
8. (transitive, whitewater kayaking) To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.

   I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.

Noun

huck (plural hucks)

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
2. (skiing, snowboarding) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

Etymology 2

Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).

Noun

huck (plural hucks)

1. (dialect) A person's hip.

Related terms

• huckle

Etymology 3

From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).

Verb

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)

1. (dated) To haggle in trading.

Anagrams

• HKCU

English

Etymology

Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

shuck (plural shucks)

1. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.46:

     There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks.

2. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
3. (slang) A phony.

Verb

shuck (third-person singular simple present shucks, present participle shucking, simple past and past participle shucked)

1. (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).

   Shall we shuck walnuts?

2. (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).

   I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.

3. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.

Derived terms

• shuck and jive

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “shuck”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Hucks, hucks