1677, Poor Robin’s Visions, London: Arthur Boldero, Eighth Vision, p. 117, […] to contemplate the miseries of a poor Poetick life, or study some well laid plot to Hocus his Landlady into a further credence or belief […]
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Hocus
/ˈhəʊkəs/
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HOCUS. To cheat. Hence the more modern term hoax.
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“Well, I reckon you have lived in the country. I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again […].”
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“You really are married by a priest or parson, not just hocussing me?”
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