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hokum
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hokum has 1 sense
- hokum(n = noun.communication) bunk, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality - a message that seems to convey no meaning; Array is a kind of content, message, subject matter, substance
has particulars: absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness, amphigory, nonsense verse, balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, fa la, fal la, gibber, gibberish, incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility, jabberwocky, flummery, mummery, empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole, schmegegge, shmegegge, hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hokum, n. esp. US sl.
1 sentimental, popular, sensational, or unreal situations, dialogue, etc., in a film or play etc.
2 bunkum; rubbish.
1 sentimental, popular, sensational, or unreal situations, dialogue, etc., in a film or play etc.
2 bunkum; rubbish.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
hokum
acting, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, business, characterization, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gag, gammon, gas, guff, gup, ham, hammy acting, hogwash, hoke, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, impersonation, jazz, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, moonshine, mummery, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, piffle, playacting, playing, poppycock, portrayal, projection, representation, rot, scat, shit, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role, tommyrot, tripe, wind
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