Definitions for hokey

hokey hok·ey

Spelling: [hoh-kee]
IPA: /ˈhoʊ ki/

Hokey is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in hokey (ehkoy).

Definitions for hokey

adjective

  1. overly sentimental; mawkish: Synonyms: corny, maudlin, melodramatic, cloying, goopy, mushy.
  2. obviously contrived, especially to win popular appeal or support; phony: Synonyms: fake, false, artificial, counterfeit, sham, spurious.

Origin of hokey

1945-50; irregular hok(um) + -y1

Examples for hokey

Commenting on his vanilla—some might even say “hokey”—demeanor, my wife said he reminded her of the father on Leave It to Beaver.

We used to close our meetings with a hokey phrase: “May the great master of all Scouts be with us till we meet again.”

By the hokey; if Sally Jones is'nt real grit, there's no snakes.

hokey Pokey took it with many thanks, and then went on his way.

He had scarcely opened the door when he started back in surprise, exclaiming, "By hokey, if there isn't a basket on the steps!"

I saw him some months back down at Sawyer's Forks, and by hokey!

She jumped up and down and did the hokey pokey and shouted to the rooftops from it.

"By hokey, I don't like the looks o' that," said the old man, as he observed the armed band approaching his lonely cabin.

There was the lifeless and hokey Management ($934,000 box office) and Love Happens ($22 million).

With their hokey humor and easily solved crises, those shows led straight into the era of Ellen and Will & Grace.

Word Value for hokey
Scrable

15

Words with friends

13

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