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1 hokey -- rank: 1000

hokey definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: effusively or ... schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy ... their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" [syn: artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted] Merriam Webster's adjective (hokier; -est) Date: 1927 1. corny I,3 < the usual hokey melodrama > 2. obviously contrived ; phony < the plots are tricky but not hokey — Cleveland Amory > • hokeyness or hokiness noun • hokily adverb Oxford Reference ...

2 hokey-pokey -- rank: 935

hokey-pokey definitions Oxford Reference Dictionary n. colloq. 1 = HOCUS-POCUS ...

3 hokey-cokey -- rank: 935

hokey-cokey definitions Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a communal dance performed ...

4 plagiarized -- rank: 223

... another). Moby Thesaurus counterfeit, doubled, duplicated, echoed, ersatz, fake, forged, hokey, hot, imitation, mock, phony, pilfered, pirated, pseudo, purloined, quasi, quoted ...

5 phony -- rank: 223

... forger, forgery, fourflusher, frame-up, fraud, garbled, ghost, ghostwriter, hoax, hokey, hollow man, homogeneous, humbug, hypocrite, hypocritical, icon, identical, illegitimate, image ...

6 Pseudo -- rank: 223

... factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, garbled, hokey, illegitimate, imitation, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony ...

7 kitschy -- rank: 223

... schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy ...

8 Jig -- rank: 223

... guddle, handspring, have the fidgets, high jump, hippety-hop, hitch, hokey-pokey, hook, hootchy-kootchy, hop, hopak, hornpipe, hula, hula-hula ...

9 Imitation -- rank: 223

... forged, forgery, frame-up, fraud, garbled, gemination, ghost, ghostwriter, hoax, hokey, homogeneous, icon, identical, identity, illegitimate, image, imitated, impersonating, impersonation, impostor ...

10 HOCUS POCUS -- rank: 223

... gammon, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gimmick, gobbledygook, googly, hanky-panky, hokey-pokey, humbug, incantation, jabber, jargon, jiggery-pokery, joker, juggle, jugglery ...

11 hoky -- rank: 223

hoky definitions Oxford Reference Dictionary var. of HOKEY.

12 hokiness -- rank: 223

hokiness definitions Merriam Webster's noun see hokey

13 hokily -- rank: 223

hokily definitions Merriam Webster's adverb see hokey

14 hokeyness -- rank: 223

hokeyness definitions Merriam Webster's noun see hokey

15 hoke -- rank: 223

... hokum Date: 1925 to give a contrived, falsely impressive, or hokey quality to — usually used with up < hoke up a movie ...