hokum
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ho·kum
(hō′kəm)n.
1. Something apparently impressive or legitimate but actually untrue or insincere; nonsense.
2. A stock technique for eliciting a desired response from an audience.
[Perhaps ho(cus-pocus) + (bun)kum.]
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hokum
(ˈhəʊkəm)n
1. claptrap; bunk
2. (Theatre) obvious or hackneyed material of a sentimental nature in a play, film, etc
[C20: probably a blend of hocus-pocus and bunkum]
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ho•kum
(ˈhoʊ kəm)n.
1. utter nonsense; bunkum.
2. elements of low comedy or stale melodrama introduced into a play or story for laughter or effect.
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Noun | 1. | hokum - a message that seems to convey no meaning amphigory, nonsense verse - nonsensical writing (usually verse) cobblers - nonsense; "I think that is a load of cobblers" crock - nonsense; foolish talk; "that's a crock" jabberwocky - nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric - loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" rigamarole, rigmarole - a set of confused and meaningless statements schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing |
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hokum
[ˈhəʊkəm] n (= nonsense) → tissu m d'absurditésThe book is enjoyable hokum → Le livre est un tissu d'absurdités plutôt divertissant.
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hokum
n (US inf)
(= cheap sentiment) → Gefühlsduselei f (inf)
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