▪ I. shook, n. Now chiefly U.S.
(ʃʊk)
[? f. shook ppl. a. Cf. shaken cask.]
‘A set of staves and headings sufficient for one hogshead, barrel, or the like, prepared for use and bound up in a compact form for convenience of transport. Boards for boxes prepared or fitted for use and packed in the same way bear the same name’ (Cent. Dict. 1891).
| [1768, 1794: see shook ppl. a.] 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. (ed. 3) I. 250 [Exports of U.S.] Shooks. 1860 Merc. Mar. Mag. VII. 120 Shooks are free of duty. 1894 Times 16 Aug. 6/5 Casks and barrels, empty, sugar-box shooks and packing boxes and packing box shooks, of wood. |
b. ‘Furniture made in parts and not set up, but shipped in packs’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
Hence shook v. trans., to pack in shooks.
| 1847 in Webster; and in later Dicts. |
▪ II. shook, ppl. a.
(ʃʊk)
[pa. pple. of shake v.]
1. = shaken ppl. a. In educated use only arch.
| 1695 Blackmore Pr. Arthur iii. (1696) 68 And the shook Sphears, with loud Hosannahs ring. 1768 Massach. Gaz. in Thornton Amer. Gloss. s.v., A few large shook hogs⁓heads. 1794 Morse Amer. Geog. (ed. 2) 206 [Exports of U.S.] Wood..Shingles, Shook Casks, Casks, Laths. 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 25 Reversing the shook banners of their song. |
2. colloq. a. to be shook on: to be enamoured of or enthusiastic about. Austral. and N.Z.
| 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms II. iii. 46 He was awful shook on Mad; but she wouldn't look at him. Ibid. xix. 291 I'm regular shook on the polka. 1926 J. Devanney Butcher Shop iv. 43 She had but fallen victim to the state of mind described by girls she knew as being ‘shook’ on a man. 1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm vii. 100 Tom said he wasn't too shook on makin' a public fool of himself. 1975 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 29 June 49 Like Chappell, I'm not all that shook on cocktail parties myself. |
b. Emotionally or physically disturbed, discomposed, upset. Usu. const. up. orig. and chiefly U.S.
| 1891 Kipling in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 473/2 He took my 'and an' pulled me up, an' I was pretty shook. 1897 ― Capt. Cour. ii. 31 You was shook up and silly. 1914 Dialect Notes IV. 79 Shook, p.a., startled, shocked, grieved. ‘Jed was pow'ful shook when Minervy pegged out.’ 1953 Sun (Baltimore) 24 Apr. (B ed.) 20/2 Ken Jackson..should qualify for the nickname Stonewall... Ken..fell two floors down a freight elevator shaft and as he said was only ‘shook up’. 1959 H. E. Salisbury (title) The shook-up generation. 1960 Washington Post 25 May 1 ‘Elva behaved all the way through it just like a good policeman,’ Liverman said of his wife's role in the chase. ‘But she still gets a little shook thinking about the ride.’ 1976 Daily Mirror 11 Mar. 1/1 Rock superstar Rod Stewart was all shook up last night after a lovers' tiff with..Britt Ekland. |