shook

Etymology 1

Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).

noun

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.

verb

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

Etymology 2

verb

1. simple past of shake.
2. (now informal) past participle of shake
   Pray, assure the empress, from me, that, notwithstanding the councils which have shook the throne of her father and mother, I shall remain here, ready to save the sacred persons of the king and queen, and of her brothers and sisters ;[…] 1806, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson[…], volume 1, Stanhope and Tilling, page 377
   Although she could have just held it out and it would have shook by itself. His voice was having the same effect on her that the lead guitar on Chris Isaak's Wicked Game had. 29 April 2010, “'Now that I'm married...'”, in A Summer Fling, Simon and Schuster, page 211

adj

1. (slang) Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.
   I am shook.
   Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook. 2015, Gary L. Heyward, Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island, page 239
   Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK." 21 March 2017, Danny Madion, “Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 5
   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. 2018, Eddington Again, quoted in Senay Kenfe, "Eddington Again", L. A. Record, Summer 2018, page 35
2. (slang) Emotionally upset or disturbed; scared