Huck vs. Shuck — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Huck and Shuck
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Huck
Throw (something)
People have been hucking trash into the trees
Shuck
A husk, pod, or shell of a seed, nut, or fruit, such as a pecan or an ear of corn.
Huck
Huckaback.
Shuck
A shell of a bivalve, such as an oyster or clam.
Huck
To throw or toss.
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Shuck
The exoskeleton or pupal case of an insect larva or nymph, especially one that has been shed.
Huck
To cause (a vehicle or board such as a skateboard) to leave the ground when executing a jump or stunt.
Shuck
Often shucks(Informal) Something worthless
An issue that didn't amount to shucks.
Huck
To go over or across (an obstacle), especially when executing a stunt.
Shuck
To remove the husk or shell from
Shuck corn.
Huck
To jump or go off (an object or cliff, for example), as in snowboarding or basejumping.
Shuck
To open the shell of (a bivalve)
Shuck oysters.
Huck
To leave the ground when executing a jump or stunt, as on a skateboard.
Shuck
(Informal) To cast off
Shucked their coats and cooled off.
A city trying to shuck a sooty image.
Huck
To throw or chuck.
He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.
Shuck
Used to express mild disappointment, disgust, or annoyance.
Huck
To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
Shuck
The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
Huck
To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
Shuck
A fraud; a scam.
Huck
To throw a frisbee a long distance.
Shuck
(slang) A phony.
Huck
To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
Shuck
(folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
Huck
(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.
Shuck
(transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
Shall we shuck walnuts?
Huck
(mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
Shuck
(transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
Huck
To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.
Shuck
To fool; to hoax.
Huck
(dated) To haggle in trading.
Shuck
(dialectal) To shake; shiver.
Huck
(Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
Shuck
(dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
Huck
A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.
Shuck
(dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
Huck
(dialect) A person's hip.
Shuck
(dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
Huck
To higgle in trading.
Shuck
To walk at a slow trot.
Huck
Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric
Shuck
A shock of grain.
Shuck
A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
Shuck
The shell of an oyster or clam.
Shuck
To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
Shuck
To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; - usually with off.
"Shucking" his coronet, after he had imbibed several draughts of fire water.
He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony.
Shuck
Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Shuck
Remove from the shell;
Shuck oysters
Shuck
Remove the shucks from;
Shuck corn
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