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Hoke

//hoʊk// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of hook. alt-of, alternative, obsolete

    "And thou ſhalt make hokes off golde and two cheynes off fine golde: lynkeworke and wrethed, and faſten the wrethed cheynes to the hokes."

  2. 2
    Something contrived or artificial.
Verb
  1. 1
    To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. slang

    "Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up."

  2. 2
    To scrounge, to grub. Ireland

    "When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc.

Etymology 2

From hokum.

Etymology 3

From hokum.

Etymology 4

From the root of holk (“hollow cavity”). Compare Scots howk.

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