hoke

Example Sentences

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Byington lists "hoke" as "an affirmative particle" in his Dictionary of the Choctaw Language.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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 Alger, William Rounseville

The best to my symple dyscrecon whyche is fysshynge: called Anglynge wyth a rodde: and a lyne and an hoke.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright