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hockamore

hockamore noun: a Rhenish white wine.

Noun

hockamore (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A Rhenish white wine.
    • Restor'd the fainting high and mighty / With brandy-wine and aqua-vitae; / And made 'em stoutly overcome / With bachrach, hockamore, and mum;c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part III, canto III

Origin of hockamore

From German Hochheimer (“from Hochheim”), a Hobson-Jobson from the name of the German town of Hochheim am Main.

Words formed from hockamore

Questions about hockamore

What does hockamore mean?
Hockamore means a Rhenish white wine.
What part of speech is hockamore?
Hockamore is a noun.

Words near hockamore in the dictionary

  1. Hock tide
  2. Hock Tuesday
  3. Hock-tide
  4. Hockaday
  5. Hockadays
  6. hockamore
  7. Hockchiew
  8. Hockday
  9. hocked
  10. Hockenberry
  11. Hockenberrys

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