hokum
n.
nonsense; cheap humor, melodrama, excessive sentimentality (in a play or drama)
Hokum
This article refers to a particular song type of American
blues music, and a comedic style prevalent in
blues and
country music. For other use, see
hokum (disambiguation) Hokum is a particular song type of American
blues music - a humorous song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make sexual innuendoes. This trope goes back to early blues recordings and is seen from time to time in modern American blues and
blues-rock.
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hokum
Noun
1. a message that seems to convey no meaning
(synonym) nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness
(hypernym) message, content, subject matter, substance
(hyponym) absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness
hokum
Synonyms and related words:
acting, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, buffoonery, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, business, characterization, claptrap, crap, eyewash, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, gag, gammon, gas, guff, gup, ham, hammy acting, hogwash, hoke, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, impersonation, jazz, jiggery-pokery, malarkey, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, moonshine, mummery, overacting, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, piffle, playacting, playing, poppycock, portrayal, projection, representation, rot, scat, shit, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role, tommyrot, tripe, wind
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
hokum
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