hoke
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Byington lists "hoke" as "an affirmative particle" in his Dictionary of the Choctaw Language.
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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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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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Oh, go hoke your sed—I mean soak your head!
From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Standish, Burt L.
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
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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Perhaps the Sadat trip was such effective the ater, because it was an event of enough inherent size and poignance to live up to TV's dramatic requirements without needing to be hoked up.
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It has a catchy tune, but is too hoked up to be funny.
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It is possible, of course, that the story was hoked up by Minh and Ky to embarrass Thieu and the U.S.
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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 Hall, Joseph
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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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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