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"ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 46",
"text": "There was no linen, no pillow, and when she touched the mattress it gave forth the faint dry whisper of shucks.",
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"A fraud; a scam."
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"text": "Shall we shuck walnuts?",
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"To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.)."
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"(transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.)."
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"roman": "vadja ot čerupkata",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "вадя от черупката"
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"_dis1": "65 28 8",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "décortiquer"
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"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "écailler"
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"word": "écosser"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "escochar"
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"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
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"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "pāoraora"
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"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
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"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "kōwhā"
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"text": "I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.",
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"ref": "1941 April, “Notes and News: The Reason Why”, in Railway Magazine, page 182",
"text": "[...] but what had actually happened was that the wheel of one of the coaches became detached from its axle, or, in the more expressive American argot, the train \"shucked off a wheel near Everett.\"",
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"To remove (any outer covering)."
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"(transitive) To remove (any outer covering)."
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"To fool; to hoax."
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"(transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax."
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"(dialectal) To shake; shiver."
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[
"walnut",
"walnut"
]
]
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"A fraud; a scam."
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"(slang) A phony."
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"word": "shuck down"
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"word": "shucking knife"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vadja ot čerupkata",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "вадя от черупката"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "décortiquer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "écailler"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "écosser"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "escochar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "esconchar"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "pāoraora"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "tiora"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "kōwhā"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "očiščatʹ",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "очищать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to extract shellfish from shells",
"word": "descascar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obelvam",
"sense": "to remove",
"word": "обелвам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "balamosvam",
"sense": "to fool; to hoax",
"word": "баламосвам"
}
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"To shake; shiver."
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"(dialectal) To shake; shiver."
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],
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"dialectal"
]
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"shirk"
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],
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},
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"English dialectal terms"
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],
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"(dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot."
],
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}
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"folklore",
"history",
"human-sciences",
"literature",
"media",
"publishing",
"sciences"
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