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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Slang To give an impressive but artificial, false, or deceptive quality to: hoked up some phony allegations.
Wiktionary
- v. To give a false or artificial quality to
- n. Something contrived, artificial.
Etymologies
- From hokum.
Examples
“I do have a number of schemes of various levels of hoke, but those are all long term.”
“In fact, they are free to call him a quack, a hoke artist, and an utterer of mumbo jumbo, if they wish.”
“The court found that the references to Yiamouyiannis as a quack, a hoke artist, and a fearmonger are assertions of pure opinion, as are the statements that he was exposed for quackery, lacks solid credentials, and expresses incomprehensible mumbo jumbo.”
“Her mistake was letting a guy near her who trips her hoke-a-meter.”
“But the statistics in those social-science surveys were such hoke.”
Enchantment
“And I have no stomach for starting off with the alternative: hoke up some evidence that he was up to something rotten and say I did it for the good of Amber.”
Sign of the Unicorn
“For weeding corn the chief instrument 'is a pair of tongs made of wood, and in dry weather ye must have a weeding hoke with a socket set upon”
“[Sidenote: Sea-Scorpion.] the hoke/and than he gadereth i {n} all his guttes agayne.”
“The best to my symple dyscrecon whyche is fysshynge: called Anglynge wyth a rodde: and a lyne and an hoke.”
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
“Hoke! hoke!" ran through the whole company of Spirits, and "Hoke! hoke!" they cried again.”
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