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hoke¹

  • /hoʊk/

Rhymes with -əʊk

Where it comes from

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc.

noun hokes

  1. alternative, obsolete 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.

hoke²

  • /hoʊk/

Rhymes with -əʊk

Where it comes from

From hokum.

verb hokes · hoking · hoked

  1. slang 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.

noun hokes

  1. Something contrived or artificial.

hoke³

  • /hoʊk/

Rhymes with -əʊk

Where it comes from

From the root of holk (“hollow cavity”). Compare Scots howk.

verb hokes · hoking · hoked

  1. Ireland To scrounge, to grub. When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt

Hoke⁴

proper noun Hokes

  1. A surname.

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@misc{hoke_2026,
  title = {hoke},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hoke},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}