单词 | hokey-pokey |
释义 | hokey-pokeyn. slang or colloquial. 1. (Cf. hocus-pocus n. 2) Deception, cheatery, underhand work. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] swikec893 swikedomc893 dwalec950 braida1000 falsec1000 flerdc1000 swikelnessa1023 fakenOE chuffingc1175 fikenungc1175 bipechingc1200 treachery?c1225 falseshipc1230 guilec1230 telingc1230 swikeheada1250 craftc1275 felony1297 wrench1297 deceitc1300 gabc1300 guiling13.. guilery1303 quaintisec1325 wrenk1338 beswiking1340 falsehood1340 abetc1350 wissing1357 wilec1374 faitery1377 faiting1377 tregetryc1380 fallacec1384 trainc1390 coverture1393 facrere1393 ficklenessc1397 falsagea1400 tregeta1400 abusionc1405 blearingc1405 deceptionc1430 mean?c1430 tricotc1430 obreption1465 fallacy1481 japery1496 gauderya1529 fallax1530 conveyance1531 legerdemain1532 dole1538 trompe1547 joukery1562 convoyance1578 forgery1582 abetment1586 outreaching1587 chicanery1589 falsery1594 falsity1603 fubbery1604 renaldry1612 supercherie1621 circumduction1623 fobbinga1627 dice-play1633 beguile1637 fallaxitya1641 ingannation1646 hocus1652 renardism1661 dodgerya1670 knapping1671 trap1681 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 mamaguy1971 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 715/1 ‘Hokey-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 7/4 ‘Hokey-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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1847 |
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