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▪ I. hoc, hock, n. Obs. exc. Hist.|hɒk|
[a. F. hoc (1642 in Hatz.-Darm.), app. ad. L. hoc ‘this’. (Not the same as It. oca, F. hoca.)]
Name of an old card game, ‘in which certain privileged cards give to the person who plays them the right of attributing to them whatever value he wishes’ (Hatzfeld).
1730–6Bailey (folio), Hock, Hoca,..a Game at Cards. 1838Southey Doctor cxlii. V. 46 The Game of Hoc, the Reverse, the Beast, the Cuckoo and the Comet. 1887All Year Round 5 Feb. 66 Hoc was the favourite game of Cardinal Mazarin, which he introduced from Italy.
▪ II. hoc, hoccamore
obs. ff. hock n.4, hook, hockamore. |