hoke
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Byington lists "hoke" as "an affirmative particle" in his Dictionary of the Choctaw Language.
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Hot on Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words.
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Take a walk through the Hall of Fame gallery, where the elect are commemorated with an all-American mixture of hoke and majesty.
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Oh, go hoke your sed—I mean soak your head!
From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Burt L. Standish
"For a new hoke to hang Judas, six pence."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Stem, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly, hoked up a photo collage of Carter holding a gas nozzle to his head.
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For in excess of any proper musical's quota, Fella has been choked up, and in places even hoked up with rustic razzle-dazzle and vineyard partygoing.
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A show that is " all hoked up " is obviously the work of a group of playwright, author and producer who lack imagination.
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It has a catchy tune, but is too hoked up to be funny.
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Al þat þu mist mid cliure smiten. þi bile is stif ⁊ scharp ⁊ hoked.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
Not above hoking a bit, Kurtz last fall led the band while Benny Goodman played Dizzy Fingers, then conducted an unrehearsed hot chorus of Anchors Aweigh.
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On the title ballad, for instance, he'll hold a long note without hoking it up, without forsaking its texture or personality.
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But the joking and the hoking do not seriously impair the moviegoer's sense that he is sharing in the execution of a great and significant event.
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