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no great shakes

shake
N n

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [sheyk]
    • /ʃeɪk/
    • /nəʊ ˈɡreɪt ʃeɪks/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [sheyk]
    • /ʃeɪk/

Definitions of no great shakes words

  • verb without object no great shakes to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements. 1
  • verb without object no great shakes to tremble with emotion, cold, etc. 1
  • verb without object no great shakes to become dislodged and fall (usually followed by off or down): Sand shakes off easily. 1
  • verb without object no great shakes to move something, or its support or container, briskly to and fro or up and down, as in mixing: Shake before using. 1
  • verb without object no great shakes to totter; become unsteady. 1
  • verb without object no great shakes to clasp another's hand in greeting, agreement, congratulations, etc.: Let's shake and be friends again. 1
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Origin of no great shakes

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (v.) Middle English s(c)haken, Old English sceacan; cognate with Low German schacken, Old Norse skaka; (noun) derivative of the v.

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Parts of speech for No great shakes

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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no great shakes popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for no great shakes

adj no great shakes

  • characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
  • cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
  • fairish — moderately good, large, or well: a fairish income.
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.

adjective no great shakes

  • garden — Alexander, 1730?–91, U.S. naturalist, born in Scotland.
  • ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
  • whitebread — any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.
  • workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
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adjective no great shakes

  • embellished — Simple past tense and past participle of embellish.
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