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单词 hokey-pokey
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hokey-pokeyn.

/ˈhəʊkɪˈpəʊki/
Forms: Also hoky-poky.
Etymology: In sense 1, altered < hocus-pocus; in sense 2, perhaps of distinct origin.
slang or colloquial.
1. (Cf. hocus-pocus n. 2) Deception, cheatery, underhand work.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
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joukery-pawkery1686
jugglery1699
take-in1772
tripotage1779
trickery1801
ruse1807
dupery1816
nailing1819
pawkery1820
hanky-panky1841
hokey-pokey1847
suck-in1856
phenakisma1863
skulduggery1867
sharp practice1869
dodginess1871
jiggery-pokery1893
flim-flammery1898
runaround1915
hanky1924
to give the go-around1925
Scandiknavery1927
the twist1933
hype1955
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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hoky-poky, hocus-pocus. North.
1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Hokey-pokey. 1. A cheat; a swindle; nonsense. (From Hocus Pocus.)
2. A cheap kind of ice cream, sold by street vendors.Hokey Pokey is a proprietary name for ice cream in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of
pistachio ice?1790
iced tea1827
tutti-frutti1834
brown-bread ice1846
vanilla ice1846
vanille ice1846
Neapolitan ice1867
Neapolitan ice cream1868
hokey-pokey1884
strawberry ice cream1890
choc chip1903
horn1908
Tortoni1911
slider1915
choc bar1919
cone1920
Eskimo pie1921
brick1922
brickette1922
Eskimo1922
choc ice1924
cornet1926
briquette1927
gelato1932
ninety-nine1935
wafer1936
fudgicle1938
ripple1939
tub1939
vanilla1955
double dip1965
1884 Sunday Mag. Nov. 715/1Hokey-pokey, pokey ho!’..a curiously compounded beverage.
1885 A. W. Tuer Old London Cries 58 Hokey Pokey is of a firmer make and probably stiffer material than the penny ice of the Italians.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 3/2 The correct origin of the term ‘Hokey Pokey, a penny a lump’. [An incident is related as tending to identify the term with the It. O che poco! ‘O how little!’]
1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger ii. 226 Three hokey-pokey ice-cream hand-carts, one after another, turned the corner of Trafalgar Road.
1955 Times 8 June 7/4Hokey-pokey’, which, as children used to know, sold for a penny a lump and was (presumably because of its freezing touch on the tongue) the stuff to make you jump.
1970 J. Brown Un-melting Pot i. 23 An Italian organ-grinder..who sold ice~cream or hokey-pokey at ½d a piece during the summer.
3. Cf. hokey n., and pokey-hokey in Spurdens Supp. to Forby.
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1883 Bread-Winners 231 By the great hokey-pokey! they couldn't keep it up a minute when their wives came.
4. New Zealand. A crunchy confection, having a crisp, cavitied texture and typically made by boiling together sugar, golden syrup, water, and bicarbonate of soda; cinder toffee, honeycomb.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee
taffy1817
Everton toffee1822
toffeea1825
hardbake1825
stickjaw1827
tom trot1829
tameletjie1838
butterscotch1847
peanut candy1856
caramel1884
treacle toffee1885
Harrogate toffee1890
brittle1892
peanut brittle1892
saltwater taffy1894
brickle1907
spin1913
hokey-pokey1939
1939 ‘K. Mansfield’ Scrapbook 3 We always gave him the same presents..three cakes of hoky-poky.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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