单词 | hokum |
释义 | hokumn. Originally U.S. Theatrical slang. Speech, action, properties, etc., on the stage, designed to make a sentimental or melodramatic appeal to an audience. Also transferred. Hence gen., bunkum. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > melodrama > melodramatic style hokum1917 1917 Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. iii. 3/7 ‘Jasbo’ is a form of the word common in the varieties, meaning the same as ‘hokum’, or low comedy verging on vulgarity. 1922 C. Sandburg Slabs of Sunburnt West 25 Hokum—they lap it up. 1926 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. This may be groundling comedy, but it is not pure hokum. 1926 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 38 ‘What they tell is..bold and defiant realism.’ ‘Bold and defiant hokum, I should call it.’ 1927 Sunday Express 17 Apr. 4 Channing Pollock believed that in ‘The Fool’ he had written a work of genius. Even when other people said it was hokum he still went on. 1928 Publishers' Weekly 16 June 2440 It is pure hokum to suggest that all authors are always interesting. 1928 Sunday Disp. 15 July 15/1 The Adelphi..was occupied by a Mr. Sam Bernard with a musical play called ‘The Belle of Bond Street’—what an outrage that ‘Girl’ and ‘Belle’ hokum must have become! 1930 Publishers' Weekly 15 Mar. 1559 In spite of the fact that the hokum of it all has been pointed out to them. 1937 Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 8/5 His story is what the film trade calls ‘hokum’, the recipe as before with inferior or stale ingredients. 1970 New Yorker 12 Dec. 125/1 Most people in Washington dismissed this statement as a piece of sentimental hokum. 1973 Washington Post 5 Jan. B7/4 The Poseidon Adventure..strictly formula hokum but reasonably diverting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1917 |
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