shucks
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During his $45 two-hour tours that embark from a dock at Schooner Landing, Holmes offers a steady patter of oyster-related wisecracks, as his partner, Olga Oros, shucks and hands out shellfish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
In 2019’s “Shazam!,” also directed by David F. Sandberg, there was something rather charming about Levi’s boyish performance, a grown man playing Superman with all the aw shucks wonder of a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Some of the lines are more meta than others, with a character accusing Parton of stealing her man and Parton saying in her trademark, aw shucks tone, "I know people talk but I'm no witch."
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2022
The NFL issued a $10 million fine — so, shucks, poor Dan will have to put his next super yacht on layaway — and shifted day-to-day control of the team to his wife, Tanya.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022
She filled it about half full of corn shucks and quilts, and then put Daisy and me down in it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
