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HOKUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hokum mean? 

HOKUM (noun)
  The noun HOKUM has 1 sense:

1. a message that seems to convey no meaningplay

  Familiarity information: HOKUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOKUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A message that seems to convey no meaning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality

Hypernyms ("hokum" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hokum"):

absurdity; absurdness; ridiculousness (a message whose content is at variance with reason)

amphigory; nonsense verse (nonsensical writing (usually verse))

balderdash; fiddle-faddle; piffle (trivial nonsense)

buzzword; cant (stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition)

cobblers (nonsense)

crock (nonsense; foolish talk)

fa la; fal la (meaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong)

gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)

incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility (nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible)

jabberwocky (nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll))

flummery; mummery (meaningless ceremonies and flattery)

empty talk; empty words; hot air; palaver; rhetoric (loud and confused and empty talk)

rigamarole; rigmarole (a set of confused and meaningless statements)

schmegegge; shmegegge ((Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense)

hooey; poppycock; stuff; stuff and nonsense (senseless talk)

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)


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