different between shook vs shoon

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/
• (obsolete outside Northern England) IPA^(key): /?u?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).

Noun

shook (plural shooks)

1. A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
2. The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

Synonyms

• stook

Verb

shook (third-person singular simple present shooks, present participle shooking, simple past and past participle shooked)

1. To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.

Etymology 2

Verb

shook

1. simple past tense of shake.
2. (now informal) past participle of shake

Adjective

shook (comparative more shook, superlative most shook)

1. (slang) Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.
   • 2015, Gary L. Heyward, Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island, page 239:

     Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook.

   • 2017, Danny Madion, "Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 21 March 2017, page 5:

     Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK."

   • 2018, Eddington Again, quoted in Senay Kenfe, "Eddington Again", L. A. Record, Summer 2018, page 35:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shook.
2. Emotionally upset or disturbed

Synonyms

• shooketh

References

Anagrams

• Hooks, OHKOs, hooks

English

Etymology

Equivalent to shoe +? -en.

Noun

shoon

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of shoe
   • 1686, Anonymous, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, recorded by John Aubrey in Remains of Gentilisme & Judaisme, Lansdowne Manuscripts No. 231, folio 114:

     If ever thou gave either hosen or shun
     Sitt thee downe and putt them on
     But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean
     The Whinnes shall prick thee to the bare beane

   • 1901, Anna Hempstead Branch, The heart of the road:

     Her hair shone like the sun to the girdle she had on, And the robe that she wore was of green. "Sweet child, little child, how got you there?" Down amid the grasses I found some golden shoon Wrought with fine work all about, […]

   • 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic world:

     It must be a wonderfully fine thing to be beautifully dressed like Master John, and the leather shoon were exactly the same pattern as those worn by the squire's magnificent son.

Anagrams

• Hoons, hoons