hoke
nounEtymology From hokum.
1
Something contrived or artificial.
hoke
verb/hoʊk/
Etymology From hokum.
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.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 126:
- 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.1993, Reed Whittemore, Jack London: Six Literary Lives, page 70:
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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.1999, David Lewis, 15: Humean Supervenience Debugged: Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, volume 2, page 228:
- 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.2008, Terry Penner, “12: The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and Plato”, in Hugh H. Benson, editor, A Companion to Plato, page 179: