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thoke, a. and n. Now dial.|θəʊk|
[Late ME.; origin unascertained.]
†A. adj. Not firm or solid; unsound. rare—0.
c1440Promp. Parv. 491/2 Thoke, as onsadde fysche, humorosus.
B. n.
†1. An unsound fish: see quots. Obs.
1482Rolls of Parlt. VI. 222/1 That tale fish shuld not be pakked with the lesse fish called Grilles, nor there shuld be pakked therwith neither Thokes nor broken belied fissh. [Cf. 1482–3 Act 22 Edw. IV, c. 2 §3 Saunz mixture & pakkur dez chosez et [v.r. thokes ou] pessons rompez le ventre.] 1494–5Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 23 Without medling and packing of Thokys or broken belied fisshe with the seid tale fisshe or small fisshe. 1758Descr. Thames 259 Of barrelled Fish. Grills, Thokes, &c.
2. dial., School slang. (See quots.)
[a1485Promp. Parv. (Winch. MS., ed. 1908) 97 Cowerde, herteles, long choke [suggested reading 582 thoke], vecors. ]1891Wrench Winchester Word-bk., Thoke,..a rest, a lying in bed, an idling.
Hence thoke v. ‘to lie late in bed, to be idle; thoke on, to look forward to; ˈthokester, an idler’ (Winchester Word-bk.); ˈthokish, thoky adjs. dial.: see quots.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts viii. (1684) 146 Words..of common use in Norfolk..as..Thokish. 1691Ray S. & E.C. Wds. Pref. ad fin., Cothish, morose, and thokish, slothful, sluggish, I have no account to give of. 1847–78Halliwell, Thokish, slothful; sluggish. East. In Lincolnshire it is usually thoky. |