Hocus vs Cocus - What's the difference?
hocus | cocus |
To play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
To stupefy with drugged liquor.
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, chapter=5 To adulterate; to drug (liquor).
One who cheats or deceives.
drugged liquor
As a verb hocus
is to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.As a noun hocus
is one who cheats or deceives.As a proper noun cocus is
, character in the play pseudolus of plautus.hocus
English
Verb
- (Halliwell)
citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
- (Thackeray)
- (Charles Dickens)
Noun
(es)- (South)