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Definition: COKES |
COKESNoun1. A simpleton; a gull; a dupe. |
Date "COKES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
Etymology: Cokes \Cokes\, noun. [from Old English expression Compare to Coax.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | COKES. The fool in the play of Bartholomew Fair: perhaps a contraction of the word COXCOMB. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "COKES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 79.17% of the time. "COKES" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 79.17% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 20.83% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "COKES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 炼焦. (various references) | ||||
German | verkokt. (various references) | ||||
Korean | "크스로 만" 다. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | okescay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"COKES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cnoke, cocea, cocis, coes, coges, coket, coki, cokies, cokke, cokkes, cokles, cokne, coles, cooes, cooke, cookeys, Cookism, Coskunsu, cozes, Cskac, Cukcs, cyke, cykes, fokes, Kokes, Kukes, Ocken, Okes, okez, vokes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COKES" (pronounced kō"ks) |
| 4 | k ō" k s | coax. |
| 3 | -ō" k s | blokes, chokes, evokes, folks, hoax, invokes, jokes, mokes, oaks, pokes, provokes, smokes, soaks, spokes, Stokes, strokes, yokes, yolks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-o-s" | |
-1 letter: coke, okes, sock, soke. | |
-2 letters: cos, kos, oes, oke, ose, sec. | |
-3 letters: es, oe, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-o-s" | |
+1 letter: chokes, geckos, ockers, socked, socket. | |
+2 letters: beckons, bemocks, buckoes, chokers, cockers, cockles, comakes, conkers, cookers, cookeys, cookies, copecks, corkers, dockers, dockets, geckoes, hockers, hockeys, jockeys, kopecks, lockers, lockets, mockers, pockets, reckons, recocks, recooks, recorks, redocks, relocks, restock, rockers, rockets, seacock, shocked, shocker, smocked, sockets, sockeye, sockmen, stocked, stocker, wackoes. | |
+3 letters: backhoes, becloaks, bedrocks, blockers, bookcase, brockets, casebook, casework, chokiest, clockers, cockades, cockeyes, cockiest, cockneys, cocksure, comakers, convokes, cookless, copydesk, corkages, corkiest, cowpokes, croakers, crockets, defrocks, diestock, dockages, dockside, dornecks, earlocks, elflocks, fetlocks, geoducks, hemlocks, hoecakes, homesick, hotcakes, kebbocks, kneesock, knockers, lockages, lockstep, lovesick, oatcakes, oversick, peacocks, penstock, petcocks, pockiest, precooks, restocks, rockiest, rockless, rockrose, roebucks, seacocks, shackoes, sherlock, shockers, shoepack, socketed, sockeyes, sockless, sprocket, stockade, stockers, stockier, stockmen, sunchoke, unchokes, wedlocks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 4B 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- -.- . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01001011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O K E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 004B 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3749453953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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