Associations to the word «Hoke»

Wiktionary

HOKE, noun. (obsolete) Alternative form of hook
HOKE, verb. (slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
HOKE, noun. Something contrived or artificial.
HOKE, verb. (Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats