Who is shook

Shook often comes up when describing extreme emotions set off by a sexy person or violent situation. On the internet, the slang shook is used for more hyperbolic or ironic states of fluster, such as the charm of a cute boy or cute dog. I just saw a woman on Llandudno sea front get mobbed by seagulls. They got her from behind — a swarm — and took her ice cream. This is not meant to be a formal definition of shook like most terms we define on Dictionary.

Feedback Tired of Typos? How can that be? Well, this is the idiomatic part of this expression. With that in mind, here are a few examples to see the expression in action. Before I leave you, I promised you that this expression has an interesting history, and I would like to deliver on this promise. For instance, up until , Google has no record of this expression being used in any books. It stayed around for a while this time, gaining in popularity until , after which it disappeared again.

First of all, did the expression maintain its meaning throughout the past two centuries, or was it perhaps slang for something else? Tressan smote the table before him a blow that shook some of the dust out of the papers that cumbered it.

New Word List Word List. Save This Word! Also shook up. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. Words nearby shook shoofly , shoo-fly pie , shoo-fly plant , shoogle , shoo-in , shook , shook up , shool , shoon , shoot , shootaround. Origin of shook 2 —70; short for shook cask, variant of shaken cask one dismounted for shipment. What else does shook mean?

A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood. Simple past tense of shake. Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shook up.

Origin of shook. Probably from shook cask variant of shaken cask cask broken down for shipment from shaken dismantled and packed for transport past participle of shake to scatter, shed. Shook Sentence Examples.