Hokum

Definition: Hokum

Hokum

Noun

1. A message that seems to convey no meaning.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Hokum

Tally Hokum (1965)

Hook & Ladder Hokum (1933)

Hokum Hotel (1932)

The Old Hokum Bucket (1931)

Harems and Hokum (1919)

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

Music

• Manufacturing Hokum (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Enemy Engaged: Comanche Vs. Hokum (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

Albanian

shaka të çastit, mburrje (arrogance, bluster, boast, bounce, brag, braggery, bravado, fanfaronade, gasconade, jactation, jactitation, puff, rodomontade, splurge, swank, talk big, vainglory, vaunt), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шарлатанство (flim-flam, humbug, imposture, quackery), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), глупост (density, fatuity, fatuousness, fiddlestick, foolishness, foppery, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, nonsense, puerility, silliness, simplicity, stupidity, stupidness, thick skull, trash, unreason, unwisdom), евтини ефекти, евтин ефект. (various references)

Farsi 

نمایش سطحی وبد, چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Corny, Crap, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Shenanigan, Silly, Stuff, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), بی معنی (Absurd, Inept, Insensate, Irrational, Rigmarole, Unmeaning). (various references)

German

Mätzchen (attic, gimmickry, hokums), Kitsch (kitsch, slush, trash). (various references)

Greek 

αερολογήματα. (various references)

Hungarian

giccses színdarab, giccses film. (various references)

Italian

dramma (dram, drama, play). (various references)

Pig Latin

okumhay.(various references)

Portuguese

simula��o, fanfarronada (fanfaronade, gasconade, hot air, leg pull, panache, rodomontade, roistering, swagger), fal�sia, cabo (bight, cable, cape, cord, corporal, end, flex, foreland, gripe, guy, hand, handle, helve, hilt, hook, hub, knob, leg pull, naze, non-com, non-commissioned officer, preventer, rope, stock, tail). (various references)

Russian 

обман (bunco, bunko, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cram, deceit, deception, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gag, gammon, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, spoof, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podvala (fraud, gouge, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hoax, humbug, imposture, jew's pitch, jiggery pokery, plant, swindle). (various references)

Spanish

tontería poco escondida (bunkum). (various references)

Swedish

klyschor. (various references)

Turkish

seyirci çekici oyunlar, saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash). (various references)

Ukrainian

сентиментальність (goo, sentiment, sentimentality), чутливість (feeling, impressionability, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, soreness, susceptibility, tenderness), зворушлива сцена. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hokum": hokums. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hokum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bokum, hakama, haku, Hakuna, hiku, Hofkunst, Hoka, Hokema, hoki, hokin, hokku, Hokus, Holkam, Holkema, hookum, houkum, houm, Hukum, Mojkom, mokume, ocum, Ohsumi, okum. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: khoum.

-2 letters: hum, mho, ohm.

-3 letters: hm, ho, mo, mu, oh, om, uh, um.

+1 letter: hokums, khoums.

+2 letters: hummock.

+3 letters: hummocks, hummocky, krumhorn.

+4 letters: hummocked, krumhorns, krummholz, krummhorn, mouthlike, touchmark.

+5 letters: hummocking, krummhorns, smokehouse, touchmarks.