Found 4 hits - Term: hocus-pocus, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hocus-pocus \ho"cus-po"cus\, n. prob. invented by jugglers in
imitation of latin. cf. hoax, hocus.
1. a term used by magicians or conjurers in pretended
incantations.
1913 webster
2. a juggler or trickster. archaic --sir t. herbert.
1913 webster
3. a magician's trick; a cheat; nonsense. --hudibras.
1913 webster
4. obfuscating talk or elaborate but meaningless activity
intended to hide a deception or to obscure what is
actually happening; verbal misrepresentation intended to
take advantage of you in some way.
syn: trickery, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery,
skulduggery, skullduggery.
wordnet 1.5 +pjc
see also:
hoax hocus
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hocus-pocus \ho"cus-po"cus\, v. t.
to cheat. colloq. --l'estrange.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
hocus-pocus
n : verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
in some way syn: trickery, slickness, hanky panky,
jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
also: hocus-pocussing, hocus-pocussed
see also:
trickery slickness hanky panky jiggery-pokery skulduggery skullduggery
hocus-pocussing hocus-pocussed
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
28 moby thesaurus words for "hocus-pocus":
abracadabra, artifice, cheat, chicanery, con game, conjuring,
deceit, deception, duplicity, flimflam, gibberish, hanky-panky,
hoax, humbug, incantation, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain,
magic, mischief, mumbo-jumbo, nonsense, prestidigitation,
rigmarole, sleight of hand, swindle, trick, trickery
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