Hoke vs Oke - What's the difference?
hoke | oke |
(obsolete)
* 1535 , ,
(slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
* 1993 , Reed Whittemore, Jack London'', ''Six Literary Lives ,
* 1999 , David Lewis, 15: Humean Supervenience Debugged'', ''Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology , Volume 2,
* 2008 , Terry Penner, 12: The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and Plato'', Hugh H. Benson (editor), ''A Companion to Plato ,
(Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
* 1987 , , 2010,
* 2000 , , The Little Hammer ,
(historical, or, obsolete) A Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian and Wallachian unit of weight, equal to about 2 & 3/4 lbs.
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(South Africa, slang) man; guy; bloke
* 1998 , Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's Lekker, Thick South African Joke Book (page 106)
* 2005 , Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex
As nouns the difference between hoke and oke
is that hoke is alternative form of lang=en while oke is a Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian and Wallachian unit of weight, equal to about 2 & 3/4 lbs.As a verb hoke
is to ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.hoke
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl).Noun
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- Thou shalt make hokes' of golde also, and two wreth? cheynes of pure golde, and shalt fasten them vnto the ' hokes .
Etymology 2
From (hokum).Verb
(hok)page 70,
- He even checked the Thomas Cooke & Son travel people about how to get'' to the East End (here he was hoking''' a bit), learning that they were ready to advise him on how to journey to any point in the world ''except'' the East End. Then he hailed a cab and found (here he was ' hoking further) that the cab driver didn't know how to get there either.
page 228,
- If we define partitions of alternative cases by means of ingeniously hoked -up properties, we can get the principle to say almost anything we like.
page 179,
- If it be asked how we come to talk about them, the answer is: for purposes of rejecting these misbegotten creatures of sophistic imaginations, “hoked up” with such things as interest'', ''strength'', and the like, which ''do exist, although only outside of these combinations.
Derived terms
* hokeyEtymology 3
Compare (etyl) howk.Verb
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- When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
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- We met when I was hoking about in the rocks – just the sort of thing a virtual only child does to put in the day.
oke
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) okka,"oke." *OED 2nd edition. 1989. (online)"oka."Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1).'' Random House, Inc. 2009. from (etyl) , from (etyl) ''uncia .
Noun
(en noun)References
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- An oke meets up with his ex-wife at a party. After a few dops, he puts his arm around her and suggests they go to bed. 'Over my dead body,' she snarls at him. He downs his drink and says, 'I see you haven't changed.'
- I had initiated an African ritual by giving the pipe to him. And you can never stay befuck with an oke you smoke nchangu with.