dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/hok_MW.json

{
  "hokey":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": corny entry 1 sense 1":[
        "the usual hokey melodrama"
      ],
      ": obviously contrived : phony":[
        "the plots are tricky but not hokey",
        "\u2014 Cleveland Amory"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She gave us some hokey excuse for being late.",
      "their father's sense of humor was hokey beyond belief and most people's endurance",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This moment, however, is dedicated to the epic\u2019s sometimes hokey philosophy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "Smith was aided with the book by self-help author Mark Manson, which may be why this otherwise exhilarating audiobook is burdened at times with passages of hokey advice on self-empowerment. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Dec. 2021",
      "The first Evil Dead is kind of a melodrama, a lot of laughs come out of the excessive effects and hokey dialogue, and bad acting. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 12 July 2021",
      "As a Valentine to them or something, HBO Max released the trailer on February 14, and this directorial cut of the film definitely appears to scrub all quippy, hokey signs of uncredited reshoot director Joss Whedon out of the picture. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 14 Mar. 2021",
      "The popular Canadian television show might sound like a hokey reality show for the political set. \u2014 Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor , 5 May 2021",
      "As a Valentine to them or something, HBO Max released the trailer on February 14, and this directorial cut of the film definitely appears to scrub all quippy, hokey signs of uncredited reshoot director Joss Whedon out of the picture. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 14 Mar. 2021",
      "As a Valentine to them or something, HBO Max released the trailer on February 14, and this directorial cut of the film definitely appears to scrub all quippy, hokey signs of uncredited reshoot director Joss Whedon out of the picture. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 14 Mar. 2021",
      "As a Valentine to them or something, HBO Max released the trailer on February 14, and this directorial cut of the film definitely appears to scrub all quippy, hokey signs of uncredited reshoot director Joss Whedon out of the picture. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 14 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1927, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u014d-k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "corn-fed",
      "cornball",
      "cornpone",
      "corny"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185321",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hokeypokey":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": hocus-pocus sense 2":[],
      ": ice cream sold by street vendors":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "every year the legislature has to go through the same hokeypokey before it balances the state budget"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1878, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cch\u014d-k\u0113-\u02c8p\u014d-k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "applesauce",
      "balderdash",
      "baloney",
      "boloney",
      "beans",
      "bilge",
      "blah",
      "blah-blah",
      "blarney",
      "blather",
      "blatherskite",
      "blither",
      "bosh",
      "bull",
      "bunk",
      "bunkum",
      "buncombe",
      "claptrap",
      "codswallop",
      "crapola",
      "crock",
      "drivel",
      "drool",
      "fiddle",
      "fiddle-faddle",
      "fiddlesticks",
      "flannel",
      "flapdoodle",
      "folderol",
      "falderal",
      "folly",
      "foolishness",
      "fudge",
      "garbage",
      "guff",
      "hogwash",
      "hokum",
      "hoodoo",
      "hooey",
      "horsefeathers",
      "humbug",
      "humbuggery",
      "jazz",
      "malarkey",
      "malarky",
      "moonshine",
      "muck",
      "nerts",
      "nonsense",
      "nuts",
      "piffle",
      "poppycock",
      "punk",
      "rot",
      "rubbish",
      "senselessness",
      "silliness",
      "slush",
      "stupidity",
      "taradiddle",
      "tarradiddle",
      "tommyrot",
      "tosh",
      "trash",
      "trumpery",
      "twaddle"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030110",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "hokum":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a device used (as by showmen) to evoke a desired audience response":[],
      ": pretentious nonsense : bunkum":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Everyone knows his story is pure hokum .",
      "His new film is yet another piece of Hollywood hokum .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "With hokum such as this, my credulity can be counted on. \u2014 Kent Russell, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
      "And, of course, Goop embraces the long-standing hokum known as homeopathy, which essentially claims ritualized dilutions of poisons can cure disease and anthropomorphic water molecules can remember how to heal you. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "Greekman\u2019s feels subtly evocative without any hokum and serves uplifting food that meshes with the California growing seasons. \u2014 Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times , 4 Sep. 2021",
      "This film and those of its ilk \u2014 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Dig being two superior examples \u2014 offer a more dignified alternative to the hokum of Nicholas Sparks, but in this case, not by much. \u2014 Charles Bramesco, Vulture , 25 Aug. 2021",
      "President Biden is in part a hostage to his own campaign mythology \u2014 the blue-collar guy from Scranton \u2014 and all the hokum that goes along with it. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 15 June 2021",
      "Yet the American space-industrial complex is sustained by Hollywood hokum . \u2014 David Beers, The New Republic , 7 Dec. 2020",
      "Downtrodden Democrats will need to come to grips with the reality that vast swaths of the country like or, at least, accept the hokum and hatred that Trump has been peddling. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 3 Nov. 2020",
      "This isn\u2019t some kind of health food store hippie hokum . \u2014 Tim Macwelch, Outdoor Life , 13 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1908, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably blend of hocus-pocus and bunkum":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8h\u014d-k\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "applesauce",
      "balderdash",
      "baloney",
      "boloney",
      "beans",
      "bilge",
      "blah",
      "blah-blah",
      "blarney",
      "blather",
      "blatherskite",
      "blither",
      "bosh",
      "bull",
      "bunk",
      "bunkum",
      "buncombe",
      "claptrap",
      "codswallop",
      "crapola",
      "crock",
      "drivel",
      "drool",
      "fiddle",
      "fiddle-faddle",
      "fiddlesticks",
      "flannel",
      "flapdoodle",
      "folderol",
      "falderal",
      "folly",
      "foolishness",
      "fudge",
      "garbage",
      "guff",
      "hogwash",
      "hokeypokey",
      "hoodoo",
      "hooey",
      "horsefeathers",
      "humbug",
      "humbuggery",
      "jazz",
      "malarkey",
      "malarky",
      "moonshine",
      "muck",
      "nerts",
      "nonsense",
      "nuts",
      "piffle",
      "poppycock",
      "punk",
      "rot",
      "rubbish",
      "senselessness",
      "silliness",
      "slush",
      "stupidity",
      "taradiddle",
      "tarradiddle",
      "tommyrot",
      "tosh",
      "trash",
      "trumpery",
      "twaddle"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231615",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}