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In some senses, hoke is marked as obsolete, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
hoke
/hoʊk/
noun 2verb 2name 1
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2VERB + HOKE
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noun
1
Alternative form of hook.
And thou ſhalt make hokes off golde and two cheynes off fine golde: lynkeworke and wrethed, and faſten the wrethed cheynes to the hokes.
verb
1
To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up.
He even checked the Thomas Cooke & Son travel people about how to get to the East End (here he was hoking a bit), learning that they were ready to advise him on how to journey to any point in the world except the East End. Then he hailed a cab and found (here he was hoking further) that the cab driver didn't know how to get there either.
noun
1
Something contrived or artificial.
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And thou ſhalt make hokes off golde and two cheynes off fine golde: lynkeworke and wrethed, and faſten the wrethed cheynes to the hokes.
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Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up.
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He even checked the Thomas Cooke & Son travel people about how to get to the East End (here he was hoking a bit), learning that they were ready to advise him on how to journey to any point in the worl
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If we define partitions of alternative cases by means of ingeniously hoked-up properties, we can get the principle to say almost anything we like.
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When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
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‘[B]ut the raven winging darkly over the doomed will have news, tidings for the eagle of how he hoked and ate, how he and the wolf made short work of the dead.’
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