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hokum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bunk, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| Type of | subject matter, substance, message, content |
| Has types | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, drool, empty talk, empty words, fa la, fal la, fiddle-faddle, flummery, gibber, gibberish, hooey, hot air, humbug, incoherence, incoherency, jabberwocky, mummery, nonsense verse, palaver, piffle, poppycock, rhetoric, ridiculousness, rigamarole, rigmarole, schmegegge, shmegegge, stuff, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, absurdity, unintelligibility, absurdness, amphigory, balderdash |
Examples of hokum
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It actually worked out when Lauderdale Lakes dating substituted with this hokum.
From the iftomm2003.com
It is all hokum, of course, but more entertaining than most of the competition.
From the time.com
Too bad WSJ editorials can't help but mix normative economics with pure hokum.
From the economist.com
I'll be talking more about this with reference to your hokum in a future post.
From the iftomm2003.com
This has nothing to do, then, with hackeneyed hokum about oysters and rhino horns.
From the guardian.co.uk
Handled right, Sly Stallone's testosterone-fuelled hokum could have been fun.
From the independent.co.uk
I actually reckon a couple of the benefits of this hokum are over emphasized.
From the iftomm2003.com
This hokum is an overlooked concept to give an edge to completely free dating site.
From the iftomm2003.com
What's presumably intended as humanistic affirmation instead just seems like hokum.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Nonsense: a message that seems to convey no meaning
- Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music - a humorous song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make sexual innuendos. This trope goes back to early blues recordings, and is seen from time to time in modern American blues and blues-rock.
- Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate
- A stud variation with an option to get cards placed face-up or down.
- Fleecer, Bunko, and Skamm: Four crooked lawyers from the country of Cumbria. Kit and Kay met them when they went to deal with Karastropov, and they appear again in "Boinkberry Bequest" and "By Boinkberries Betrayed".
- Nonsense; same as applesauce, etc.
