单词 | hokum |
释义 | hokum (once / 42212 pages) n WORD FAMILY hokum USAGE EXAMPLESThis last trapping of kingly power, as you might expect, impresses his subjects who believe the hokum that he wrestled the big cat into submission. The Guardian(Oct 31, 2016) He has written two other comic novels, and in 2006, he edited a collection of African American humor called “Hokum.” Washington Post(Oct 25, 2016) It’s a tad woo-woo for the average Jane, in other words, indicative of ridiculous business a few steps removed from pure hokum. Salon(Oct 21, 2016) n a message that seems to convey no meaning Syn|Hypo|Hyper bunk, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness a message whose content is at variance with reason amphigory, nonsense versenonsensical writing (usually verse) balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffletrivial nonsense buzzword, cantstock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition cobblersnonsense crocknonsense; foolish talk fa la, fal lameaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong gibber, gibberishunintelligible talking incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibilitynonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible jabberwockynonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) flummery, mummerymeaningless ceremonies and flattery empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoricloud and confused and empty talk rigamarole, rigmarolea set of confused and meaningless statements schmegegge, shmegegge(Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsensesenseless talk baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddlepretentious or silly talk or writing word saladjumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia abracadabragibberish and nonsense babble, babbling, lallationgibberish resembling the sounds of a baby blather, blatherskitefoolish gibberish double Dutchan incomprehensible talk double talkdeliberately unintelligible gibberish gabble, jabber, jabberingrapid and indistinct speech mumbo jumbolanguage or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion content, message, subject matter, substance what a communication that is about something is about |
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