different between shook vs tossed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/
• (obsolete outside Northern England) IPA^(key): /?u?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).

Noun

shook (plural shooks)

1. A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
2. The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

Synonyms

• stook

Verb

shook (third-person singular simple present shooks, present participle shooking, simple past and past participle shooked)

1. To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.

Etymology 2

Verb

shook

1. simple past tense of shake.
2. (now informal) past participle of shake

Adjective

shook (comparative more shook, superlative most shook)

1. (slang) Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.
   • 2015, Gary L. Heyward, Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island, page 239:

     Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook.

   • 2017, Danny Madion, "Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 21 March 2017, page 5:

     Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK."

   • 2018, Eddington Again, quoted in Senay Kenfe, "Eddington Again", L. A. Record, Summer 2018, page 35:

     He wrote this long ass thing about how we're the next up and coming thing! I'm shook, I'm like 'What the hell?" and all the emails started coming in—Interscope, Capitol, Universal, it was this whole spiral.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shook.
2. Emotionally upset or disturbed

Synonyms

• shooketh

References

Anagrams

• Hooks, OHKOs, hooks

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?st/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?st/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: tossed

Verb

tossed

1. simple past tense and past participle of toss