Hoke
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /hoʊk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hoke is a noun meaning Something contrived or artificial.
Meaning
Something contrived or artificial.
More Meanings
- (Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
- (obsolete) Alternative form of hook.
- (slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
Example Sentences
When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up.
We met when I was hoking about in the rocks – just the sort of thing a virtual only child does to put in the day.
And thou ſhalt make hokes off golde and two cheynes off fine golde: lynkeworke and wrethed, and faſten the wrethed cheynes to the hokes.
Word Forms
- hokes
- hoking
- hoked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hocus, hough, hocuspocus, hork, hock, hoved.
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