hoke
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
- Something contrived or artificial.
动词 v.
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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.
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To scrounge, to grub.
— When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
词源
词源 1
From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc.
词源 2
From hokum.
词源 3
From the root of holk (“hollow cavity”). Compare Scots howk.
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