full-shuck
n.— «“He was feeling good; you could tell there was a little bit of energy,” said Martin’s second Marc Kennedy with a broad smile, moments after Alberta’s 7-4 Brier-opening win over New Brunswick’s Russ Howard Saturday at the Pengrowth Saddledome. “We like to call that ‘full-shuck.’ Kevin was in full-shuck mode. We say that when all of us are playing good and feeling good—we’re in full-shuck.”» —“Alberta rink ’shucks’ at win” by Allen Cameron Canada.com (Don Mills, Ontario, Canada) Mar. 7, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
To feel poosly, or poosley, meaning to “feel poorly,” shows up in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York and is linked to Dutch settlement in the area. The word appears in a list of Dutchisms in the fourth edition of H. L. Mencken’s The American Language...
Light a shuck means “to skedaddle” or “leave quickly,” and is often found in cowboy literature. It’s a reference to moving quickly while using a burning corn shuck to light one’s way, and may also be influenced by the swiftness fire burns dry corn...