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Hocuses vs Houses - What's the difference?

hocuses | houses |

As verbs the difference between hocuses and houses

is that hocuses is (hocus) while houses is (house).

As nouns the difference between hocuses and houses

is that hocuses is while houses is .

hocuses

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hocus)
  • Noun

    (head)

  • hocus

    English

    Verb

  • To play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
  • (Halliwell)
  • To stupefy with drugged liquor.
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  • , title= , chapter=5 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)
  • To adulterate; to drug (liquor).
  • (Charles Dickens)

    Noun

    (es)
  • One who cheats or deceives.
  • (South)
  • drugged liquor
  • See also

    * hocus-pocus

    houses

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (house)
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