Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.). · To remove (any outer covering). · To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device. · To fool; to hoax.
The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts). · A fraud; a scam. · A phony.
Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).
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