Hocuses vs Houses - What's the difference?
hocuses | houses |
(hocus)
To play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
To stupefy with drugged liquor.
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, title=
, chapter=5 To adulterate; to drug (liquor).
One who cheats or deceives.
drugged liquor
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)Noun
(head)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)