shook

The word “shook” means past tense of "shake.". In plain terms, either the past tense of "shake," or (informally) badly rattled by an experience.

“Shook” is pronounced shuuk (/ʃʊk/ in IPA).

Here is “shook” used in a sentence: “The whole building shook during the earthquake.”

Words with a similar meaning to “shook” include stook and shooketh.

Depending on how it is used, “shook” can be a verb and an adjective.

“Shook” is a fairly common word in modern English.

“Shook” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: past tense of "shake.".

"Shook" is the simple past tense of "shake" — "she shook the bottle" — while "shaken" is the past participle used with helping verbs: "the bottle was shaken." In formal English, "have shook" or "was shook" is nonstandard; use "have shaken" and "was shaken" instead.

Not by formal rules, where the correct form is "I'm shaken." But "shook" has become an established informal adjective meaning rattled, upset, or emotionally shaken, and in that slang register "I'm shook" is the natural, expected phrasing. Keep it to casual speech and writing.

Both are slang for being rattled or emotionally shaken. "Shooketh" is a jokey, mock-archaic version of "shook," borrowing an old-fashioned verb ending to exaggerate the shock for comic effect, and it appears almost exclusively online or in playful speech.

"Shook up" describes being emotionally disturbed by a specific event — "she was pretty shook up after the crash" — and in careful writing becomes "shaken up." Plain "shook" as an adjective is newer slang covering the same ground of being rattled or upset, but it reads as distinctly informal, internet-flavoured English.