hoking

Verb (1)

hoke (third-person singular simple present hokes, present participle hoking, simple past and past participle hoked)

1. (slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
   • Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 126

Verb (2)

hoke (third-person singular simple present hokes, present participle hoking, simple past and past participle hoked)

1. (Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
   • When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt1987, Seamus Heaney, Terminus: The Haw Lantern, published 2010, unnumbered page

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