Hokeypokey vs Hokey - What's the difference?
hokeypokey | hokey |
(US) A group dance performed in a circle, in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 19, author=Peter Applebome, title=At 91, He Isn’t Ready for the Last Dance Just Yet, work=New York Times
, passage=So he choreographs each event depending on the crowd, starting with something to learn the drill, like “Marching Through Georgia,” working in something to loosen people up like the hokeypokey , and probably a contra dance (long lines, not squares) like the Virginia reel. }}
(US, colloquial) phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality
* When asked for his book report, Chad came up a series of hokier''' and '''hokier excuses, until he finally admitted that he hadn’t done it at all.
* I thought the bargain-priced windshield wiper blades were a little hokey when I saw their cheap packaging, but when they flew off the end of the wiper during a rainstorm, I knew for sure.
(US, colloquial) corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental
* Terry hated going to the cinema with Pat, as Pat always chose hokey romantic comedies that made Terry want to gag.
Hokeypokey is a see also of hokey.
As a noun hokeypokey
is (us) a group dance performed in a circle, in which people move various of their body parts in and out of the middle, and shake them about.As an adjective hokey is
(us|colloquial) phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality.hokeypokey
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Alternative forms
* hokey-pokeyNoun
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