Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give an impressive but artificial, false, or deceptive quality to.
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- verb slang To give a
false orartificial quality to - noun Something contrived, artificial.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I do have a number of schemes of various levels of hoke, but those are all long term.
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In fact, they are free to call him a quack, a hoke artist, and an utterer of mumbo jumbo, if they wish.
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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.
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Her mistake was letting a guy near her who trips her hoke-a-meter.
wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2004
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But the statistics in those social-science surveys were such hoke.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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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 Zelazny, Roger 1975
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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
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[Sidenote: Sea-Scorpion.] the hoke/and than he gadereth i {n} all his guttes agayne.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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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 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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"Hoke! hoke!" ran through the whole company of Spirits, and "Hoke! hoke!" they cried again.
The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends Cornelius Mathews 1853
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