HOCUS POCUS

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hocus Pocus Powwow (1968)

Hocus Pocus (performing artist: Focus)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dog Spirit: Hounds, Howlings, and Hocus Pocus (reference)

• Hocus Pocus (reference)

• Metaphysical and Paranormal Hocus Pocus (reference)

• More Hocus Pocus (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hocus Pocus (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hocus Pocus Live [Hollywood] [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A piercing piece of loco foco hocus pocus. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

truk (catch, fetch, hokey-pokey, legerdemain), marifet (art, artifice, caper, dodge, fetch, gimmick, hokey-pokey, ploy, sleight of hand, stunt, trick), fjalë mashtruese. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фокус-бокус (hokey-pokey), жонгльорство (juggle, jugglery, legerdemain, sleight of hand), жонглирам (juggle), правя фокуси (conjure, juggle), погаждам номера, измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references)

Czech

triky, trik (dodge, dor, foist, gag, gimmick, racket, subterfuge, trick, wangle), podvody, kejkle (sleight of hand), kejklířství (jugglery, mockery). (various references)

French

tour de passe-passe, supercherie, charabia, attrape (hoax). (various references)

German

hokuspokus (conjuring trick, hey presto, jiggery pokery, malarkey, mumbo jumbo, palaver), faule tricks. (various references)

Greek 

κόλπο (contrivance, gimmick, knack, ploy, ruse, stunt, trick), μαγικέσ λέξεισ, εξορκισμοί, αγυρτεία (charlatanism, charlatanry, jugglery, quackery). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"וקוס פוקוס. (various references)

Hungarian

hókuszpókusz (hanky panky, hanky-panky, hokey-pokey). (various references)

Italian

gherminella. (various references)

Pig Latin

ocushay ocuspay.(various references)

Romanian

hocus-pocus (hokey-pokey), mistificare (hanky panky, mystification), formulã de scamatorie, înşelãtorie (cunning, deception, delusion, do, dodgery, double dealing, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, guilefulness, hanky panky, humbug, imposition, imposture, racket, ramp, take in). (various references)

Russian 

фокус-покус (hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey), надувательство (cozenage, do, dupery, gyp, legerdemain, skulduggery, skullduggery, spoof, swindle, trickery), проделывать фокус. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

hokus pokus, opseniti (blind, glamorize, hocus). (various references)

Spanish

trampa (booby trap, catch, cheat, cheating, deadfall, debt, decoy duck, graft, hatch, mantrap, pit, pitfall, plant, snare, trap, trapdoor, trick, trickery, try on, wangle), pasapasa, mistificación (hoax, Mummery, mystification), abracadabra (abracadabra). (various references)

Swedish

hokuspokus (hey presto), simsalabim, lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick), gyckelspel (illusion, phantasmagoria), fiffel (crooked dealings, fiddle, hustle, jiggery pokery, jiggery-pokery, manipulations, shenanigan, tricks, wangle). (various references)

Turkish

hokus pokus (hokey-pokey, hoky-poky), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), el çabukluğu (adroitness, dexterity, hat trick, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, legerdemain, pass, prestidigitation, sleight, sleight of hand, trick), üçkâğıt (cheat, fiddle, frame up, gadget, have, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, jiggery pokery, rouser, ruse, skin game, swindle, trick, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing, wile). (various references)

Ukrainian

фокус-покус, фокус (conjury, focus, juggle, pass, sleight), обдурювання (chouse, cozenage, dupery, humbug, overreach, racket, skulduggery). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: couscous.

-4 letters: cuscus, scoops.

-5 letters: chops, cocos, cohos, cooch, coops, couch, coups, cusps, cusso, hocus, hoops, ouphs, pooch, poohs, pouch, scoop, scops, scups, shoos, shops, sophs, soups.