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Shucked vs Headless - What's the difference?

shucked | headless |

As a verb shucked

is past tense of shuck.

As an adjective headless is

without a head; decapitated.

shucked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shuck)

    • shuck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
  • (slang, African American Vernacular English) A fraud; a scam.
  • (slang) A phony.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
    • Shall we shuck walnuts?
  • To remove (any outer covering).
    • I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.
  • (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.

    • Anagrams

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    headless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a head; decapitated.
    • How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?
  • Without a head in the sense of leadership.
    • The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.
  • (linguistics, of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word.
  • (computing) Running without a user interface; specifically , running without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
  • * 2003 , William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003 , Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-7357-1158-7, page 62:
    • /redirect. Used for console redirection in headless servers.
  • * 2007 , Carla Schroder, Linux Networking Cookbook , O’Reilly Media (2008), ISBN 978-0-596-10248-7, page 47:
    • Routers typically run headless , without a keyboard or monitor.
  • * 2010 , Charles Bell et al., MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers , O'Reilly Media, ISBN 978-0-596-80730-6, page 278:
    • This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server
  • (of beer) Without a head of foam.
  • (obsolete) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash.
    • Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning. — Spenser.

    Derived terms

    * headlessly * headlessness * run around like a headless chicken