hoke

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
2. 2

   To ascribe a false or artificial quality to

   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.
   • 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.
3. 3

   Something contrived or artificial.

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   1. 4

      To scrounge, to grub.

      • When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
      • ‘[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.’
      • 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.
   2. 5

      A surname.

The neighborhood