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▪ I. hokey, hoaky, n.|ˈhəʊkɪ|
In by hokey, by the hokey, a petty oath, or asseveration. Also, by the hokey fiddle.[Hoakie, in Ayrshire, according to Jamieson, means ‘a fire that has been covered up with cinders, when all the fuel has become red’. This is hardly likely to be the source of the petty oath, which seems to be substituted for some other word.] 1825Jamieson s.v., Used also as a petty oath, By the hoakie. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Dead Drummer, What sound mingles too?—by the hokey—a Drum! 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xi. 101 Hilloa, by the Hokey I have him! 1867F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 64 Then, by hokey, I'll like you very much indeed, old fellow! 1922Joyce Ulysses 513 By the hoky fiddle, thanks be to Jesus. 1958Engineering 4 Apr. 426/1 It may be five years before it pays dividends but by the hokey fiddle it'll shake us.
▪ II. hokey, a. slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈhəʊkɪ|
Also hokie, hoky.
[f. hoke v., hokum + -y1.]
Characterized by hokum; sentimental, melodramatic, artificial.
1945N.Y. Times 19 Aug. 3/8 Equally a part of America..are the dull films, the tasteless, hoky confections that public taste ought to repudiate. 1968Surfer Mag. Jan. 58/1 They know the films are hokie Hollywood products. 1969Northwest (Sunday Oregonian Mag.) 14 Dec. 11/2 Not the ‘hokey’ set-ups I've been through a half dozen times, but a supervised transitional period. 1970New Yorker 16 May 105/3 A funny and hokey reënactment of the pantomime pocket drama that Colette did in music halls all over France. 1971Rolling Stone 24 June 31/4 A closing piece [on a record], ‘Sometimes’, is embarrassingly hokey. |