hoke
/hoʊk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.55 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
Slang
noun
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "And thou ſhalt make hokes off golde and two cheynes off fine golde: lynkeworke and wrethed, and faſten the wrethed cheynes to the hokes."
- "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."
- "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."
- "If it be asked how we come to talk about them, the answer is: for purposes of rejecting these misbegotten creatures of sophistic imaginations, “hoked up” with such things as interest, strength, and the like, which do exist, although only outside of these combinations."
- "When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt"
Etymology
From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hoke, hōc