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单词 hokum
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hokumn.

Brit. /ˈhəʊkəm/, U.S. /ˈhoʊkəm/
Forms: Also hocum.
Etymology: ? A blend of hocus-pocus n., adj., and adv. and bunkum n.
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.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
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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).
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