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Definition of aw-shucks in English: aw-shucksexclamationɔːˈʃʌks North American informal Expressing genial self-deprecation or gratified embarrassment. Aw shucks, you're making me blush! Example sentencesExamples - Anyone who knew him will remember that he always wore a smile and had aw-shucks, down-to-earth personality that masked one of the finest competitors and clutch performers the game has ever seen.
- Andrew is refined and Jake has an aw-shucks, country charm.
- With his gosh-darned, aw-shucks demeanor and disarming smile, he is able to insult entire ethnic groups without even realizing he's doing it.
- Besides being young and quite good-looking in an aw-shucks sort of way, he won election in 2002.
- In their awkward approaches to the line and aw-shucks attitudes about gutter balls and unmade spares, they represent the complacent, non-competitive face of so many bowlers today.
- With a gigantic career based upon an aw-shucks tone of blue collar tales of midwestern values, couldn't one little fling many years ago get absolved after a teary apology?
- He explained in his aw-shucks style that he had been ‘asked by a lot of people whether this would affect the election.’
- But see the aw-shucks, ‘just plain facts’ tone there?
- Between songs you get Chris talking straight to the camera, making goofy self-deprecating jokes in his aw-shucks kind of way.
- He adds a characteristically aw-shucks postscript: ‘I have no way of justifying what I do, no temporal defence at all.’
- I hop out of the Humvee with a bowlegged cowboy swagger and a Ronald Reagan aw-shucks grin.
- It's not hard to see why; on a superstar-laden $180 million team with a moribund offense, he's the humble, aw-shucks rookie making the minimum and providing the unexpected boost, giving the fans somebody new to root for.
- With his phony aw-shucks personality, has won every debate he's been in.
- Swaying her hips behind an oversized guitar, she was delightful with her aw-shucks talent.
- He is tough, a fine leader despite his youth and aw-shucks grin.
- Guthrie was a middle-class Oklahoman with a calculated aw-shucks cowboy manner, who just happened to be a Communist Party sympathizer and had written for communist newspapers.
- That's been the knock on Hill throughout his aw-shucks career.
- Their self-deprecating wit, aw-shucks harmonies, and obsession with intoxicating spirits bring to mind Texas roots rockers the Gourds.
- Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial.
- The story is not only poorly done, but in its aw-shucks, nostalgic tone, seems to violate the unsettling, violent spirit of the movie that these extras are supposedly helping us to understand.
adjectiveɔːˈʃʌks North American informal Self-deprecating and shy. he's filled with aw-shucks niceness 他为人谦卑，心地善良。
OriginLate 20th century: from aw + shucks (see shuck). Definition of aw-shucks in US English: aw-shucksexclamation North American informal Expressing genial self-deprecation or gratified embarrassment. Aw shucks, you're making me blush! Example sentencesExamples - He is tough, a fine leader despite his youth and aw-shucks grin.
- Swaying her hips behind an oversized guitar, she was delightful with her aw-shucks talent.
- He adds a characteristically aw-shucks postscript: ‘I have no way of justifying what I do, no temporal defence at all.’
- With his phony aw-shucks personality, has won every debate he's been in.
- Their self-deprecating wit, aw-shucks harmonies, and obsession with intoxicating spirits bring to mind Texas roots rockers the Gourds.
- He explained in his aw-shucks style that he had been ‘asked by a lot of people whether this would affect the election.’
- That's been the knock on Hill throughout his aw-shucks career.
- Andrew is refined and Jake has an aw-shucks, country charm.
- Even straight men, so often skittish and easily threatened, found his aw-shucks persona and mildly sarcastic, I'm-in-on-the-joke attitude congenial.
- With his gosh-darned, aw-shucks demeanor and disarming smile, he is able to insult entire ethnic groups without even realizing he's doing it.
- Between songs you get Chris talking straight to the camera, making goofy self-deprecating jokes in his aw-shucks kind of way.
- It's not hard to see why; on a superstar-laden $180 million team with a moribund offense, he's the humble, aw-shucks rookie making the minimum and providing the unexpected boost, giving the fans somebody new to root for.
- The story is not only poorly done, but in its aw-shucks, nostalgic tone, seems to violate the unsettling, violent spirit of the movie that these extras are supposedly helping us to understand.
- I hop out of the Humvee with a bowlegged cowboy swagger and a Ronald Reagan aw-shucks grin.
- Guthrie was a middle-class Oklahoman with a calculated aw-shucks cowboy manner, who just happened to be a Communist Party sympathizer and had written for communist newspapers.
- With a gigantic career based upon an aw-shucks tone of blue collar tales of midwestern values, couldn't one little fling many years ago get absolved after a teary apology?
- But see the aw-shucks, ‘just plain facts’ tone there?
- Anyone who knew him will remember that he always wore a smile and had aw-shucks, down-to-earth personality that masked one of the finest competitors and clutch performers the game has ever seen.
- In their awkward approaches to the line and aw-shucks attitudes about gutter balls and unmade spares, they represent the complacent, non-competitive face of so many bowlers today.
- Besides being young and quite good-looking in an aw-shucks sort of way, he won election in 2002.
adjective North American informal attributive (of a personal quality or manner) self-deprecating and shy. 〈北美，非正式〉（人的气质、举止）谦卑的；羞怯的 his aw-shucks niceness disguised his conniving nature
OriginLate 19th century: from aw + shucks (see shuck). |