honed
English
Adjective
(head)
Made sharp.
Made more accurate or precise.
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hoked
English
hoke
English
Noun
(obsolete)
* 1535 , , unnumbered page ,
- Thou shalt make hokes‘ of golde also, and two wreth? cheynes of pure golde, and shalt fasten them vnto the ‘ hokes .
Etymology 2
From (hokum).
Verb
(hok)
(slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
* 1993 , Reed Whittemore, Jack London”, ”Six Literary Lives , page 70 ,
- He even checked the Thomas Cooke & Son travel people about how to get” to the East End (here he was hoking”’ a bit), learning that they were ready to advise him on how to journey to any point in the world ”except” the East End. Then he hailed a cab and found (here he was ‘ hoking further) that the cab driver didn’t know how to get there either.
* 1999 , David Lewis, 15: Humean Supervenience Debugged”, ”Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology , Volume 2, page 228 ,
- If we define partitions of alternative cases by means of ingeniously hoked -up properties, we can get the principle to say almost anything we like.
* 2008 , Terry Penner, 12: The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and Plato”, Hugh H. Benson (editor), ”A Companion to Plato , page 179 ,
- If it be asked how we come to talk about them, the answer is: for purposes of rejecting these misbegotten creatures of sophistic imaginations, “hoked up” with such things as interest”, ”strength”, and the like, which ”do exist, although only outside of these combinations.
Noun
(en noun )
Something contrived or artificial.
Etymology 3
Compare (etyl) howk.
Verb
(hok)
(Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
* 1987 , , 2010, unnumbered page ,
- When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
* 2000 , , The Little Hammer , unnumbered page ,
- We met when I was hoking about in the rocks – just the sort of thing a virtual only child does to put in the day.
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