hoke

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of hook. alt-of,alternative,obsolete
    — 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. Something contrived or artificial.
动词 v.
  1. To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. slang
    — Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up.
  2. To scrounge, to grub. Ireland
    — When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt

词形变化

hokes plural hokes present,singular,third-person hoking participle,present hoked participle,past hoked past hokes plural hokes present,singular,third-person hoking participle,present hoked participle,past hoked past

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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