hocusn.

Brit.

/ˈhəʊkəs/, U.S.

/ˈhoʊkəs/

Forms: Also 1600s hocas.

Etymology: Short for hocus pocus, hocus-pocus n., adj., and adv.

†1.

a. A conjuror, juggler. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer

jugglera1100

tregetour1340

hey-passa1593

prestigiator1595

baffler1606

feat-worker1617

hocus-pocus1624

hocus1647

chirosophist1652

fascinator1677

legerdemain1696

prestidigitator1712

conjurer1727

sleight-of-hand man1757

nimble-fingers1781

sleight-of-hand professor1801

legerdemainist1830

magician1834

illusionist1850

jongleura1851

wizard1859

deceptionist1883

mentalist1906

1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 36 Before a Scot can properly be curst, I must (like Hocus) swallow daggers first.

1663 Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces sig. M7^v On Hocas Pocas. Here Hocas lyes with his tricks and his knocks, Whom death hath made sure as his Juglers box.

1675 Coffee-Houses Vind. in Harl. Misc. VI. 473 Our pamphlet-monger (that sputters out senseless characters faster, than any hocus can vomit inkle).

1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies ii. 33 Running mad after Buffons, Dice, Fortune tellers, and Hocus's.

1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (1714) xciv. 109 These Ordinary Hocusses..have been made use of in all ages.

†b. transferred. A cheat, imposter, pretender. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun]

shondc725

faitoura1340

fob1393

trumper?c1450

feature14..

chuffera1500

prowler1519

truphane1568

cozener1575

cogger1580

pretender1583

impostor1586

mountebank1589

sycophant?1589

foolmonger1593

affronter1598

assumer1600

knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602

pettifogger1602

budgeter1603

quacksalver1611

empiric1614

putter-off?1615

quack1638

stafador1638

saltimbanco1646

adventurer1648

fourbe1668

shammer1677

imposer1678

charlatana1680

sham1683

cheat1687

hocus1692

gull1699

shamster1716

coal-blower1720

humbugger1752

gagger1781

fudge1794

humbug1804

potwalloper1820

twister1834

jackleg1844

fraud1850

bunyip1852

empiricist1854

Bayswater Captain1880

bluffer1888

putter-down1906

quandong1939

1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 523 Just like that old formal Hocus, who denyed a Beggar a farthing, and put him off with his Blessing.

2. Jugglery, trickery, deception. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]

swikec893

swikedomc893

dwalec950

braida1000

falsec1000

flerdc1000

swikelnessa1023

fakenOE

chuffingc1175

fikenungc1175

bipechingc1200

treachery?c1225

falseshipc1230

guilec1230

telingc1230

swikeheada1250

craftc1275

felony1297

wrench1297

deceitc1300

gabc1300

guiling13..

guilery1303

quaintisec1325

wrenk1338

beswiking1340

falsehood1340

abetc1350

wissing1357

wilec1374

faitery1377

faiting1377

tregetryc1380

fallacec1384

trainc1390

coverture1393

facrere1393

ficklenessc1397

falsagea1400

tregeta1400

abusionc1405

blearingc1405

deceptionc1430

mean?c1430

tricotc1430

obreption1465

fallacy1481

japery1496

gauderya1529

fallax1530

conveyance1531

legerdemain1532

dole1538

trompe1547

joukery1562

convoyance1578

forgery1582

abetment1586

outreaching1587

chicanery1589

falsery1594

falsity1603

fubbery1604

renaldry1612

supercherie1621

circumduction1623

fobbinga1627

dice-play1633

beguile1637

fallaxitya1641

ingannation1646

hocus1652

renardism1661

dodgerya1670

knapping1671

trap1681

joukery-pawkery1686

jugglery1699

take-in1772

tripotage1779

trickery1801

ruse1807

dupery1816

nailing1819

pawkery1820

hanky-panky1841

hokey-pokey1847

suck-in1856

phenakisma1863

skulduggery1867

sharp practice1869

dodginess1871

jiggery-pokery1893

flim-flammery1898

runaround1915

hanky1924

to give the go-around1925

Scandiknavery1927

the twist1933

hype1955

mamaguy1971

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun]

colea1307

jugglingc1380

tregetryc1380

jugglerya1400

tregettingc1440

legerdemaina1450

jocularya1500

conveyance1531

prestigiation?c1550

conjuring1577

figgum1631

prestigion1635

sleight of handa1640

hocus-pocus1647

sleight1664

jugglementa1708

thaumaturgy1727

conjurationa1734

ventriloquism1797

magic1831

prestidigitation1841

hocus1854

conjury1855

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 41 I must not believe there was any Hocas in this.

1693 R. Gould Corrupt. Times 3 A quick Eye may all their Hocus see.

1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiv. 164 Here..With neither gold nor tinsel, cap nor crown, Hocus nor title..nor conjuring-rod nor sceptre..To lie here thus.

3. Drugged liquor: cf. hocus v. 2 (In modern dictionaries.)

Compounds

hocus-trick n. juggling trick.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick

colea1307

playa1475

conveyance1534

legerdemain?1544

prank1555

convoyance1578

sleight1596

pass1599

paviea1605

trick1609

sleight of handa1626

hocus-pocus1647

juggle1664

hocus-trickc1680

passe-passe1687

jugglementa1708

thaumaturgics1721

necromantics1745

conjuration1820

c1680 in Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V. 595 Three Kingdoms now at stake do lie, And Rooks all Hocus-tricks do try, That ye may be undone.

1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 81 Such holy Cheats, such Hocus Tricks as these, For Miracles amongst the Rabble pass.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hocusv.

Brit.

/ˈhəʊkəs/, U.S.

/ˈhoʊkəs/

Etymology: < hocus n.Supposed to be the source of the later hoax v., though the want of instances for the 18th cent. makes this less certain. Apparently revived in 19th cent., perhaps under the influence of hoax.

1. transitive. To play a trick upon, ‘take in’, hoax.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)]

jape1362

bejape1377

play1562

jugglea1592

dally1595

trick1595

bore1602

jadea1616

to fool off1631

top1663

whiska1669

hocus1675

to put a sham upon1677

sham1677

fun?1685

to put upon ——1687

rig1732

humbug1750

hum1751

to run a rig1764

hocus-pocus1774

cram1794

hoax1796

kid1811

string1819

to play off1821

skylark1823

frisk1825

stuff1844

lark1848

kiddy1851

soap1857

to play it (on)1864

spoof1889

to slip (something) over (on)1912

cod1941

to pull a person's chain1975

game1996

1675 R. Head Proteus Redivivus 322 The Mercer cries, Was ever Man so Hocuss'd? however, I have enough to maintain me here.

a1686 Nalson (T.) One of the greatest pieces of legerdemain, with which these jugglers hocus the vulgar and incautelous of the present age.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. vi. v. 203 There is nothing..I so revel in as hocussing Guizot and Aberdeen.

1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. I. 368 These people have been hocussed and cheated by the Government.

2. To stupefy with drugs, esp. for a criminal purpose; hence, to drug (liquor).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)]

narcotize1526

potion1611

druga1730

hocus1831

dope1889

slug1925

snow1927

bomb1950

to hop up1968

1831 in Ann. Reg., Law Cases (1832) 321/2 [A witness] saw May put some gin into Bishop's tea. He said, ‘Are you going to hocus (or Burke) me?’

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xiii. 127 ‘What do you mean by “hocussing” brandy and water?’..‘Puttin' laud'num in it,’ replied Sam.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 585 It was at her house at Lausanne that he was hocussed at supper and lost eight hundred pounds to Major Loder.

1885 J. Grant Royal Highlanders xviii. 154 By unfair play he had rooked many: he had hocussed horses.

1887 W. Besant World Went xviii. 148 You shall hocus his drink and put him on board.

Derivatives

ˈhocussed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > [adjective]

drugged1812

hocussed1865

loaded1923

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > with drugs added

hocussed1865

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xii. 277 I will not say a hocussed wine.

ˈhocussing n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > [noun]

intoxicating1652

narcotization1853

hocussing1854

1854 T. De Quincey On Murder (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay IV. 107 The landlord..they intended to disable by a trick then newly introduced amongst robbers, and termed hocussing.

1892 J. H. Middleton Anc. Rome II. 53 The bribing of jockeys and the ‘hocussing’ of horses and their drivers were familiar to the ancient Romans.

ˈhocusser n. one who hocusses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > [noun] > one who

hocusser1862

1862 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 31/2 The ‘Drummer’ plunders by stupefaction; as the ‘hocusser’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hocus
释义	hocusn. Brit. /ˈhəʊkəs/, U.S. /ˈhoʊkəs/ Forms: Also 1600s hocas. Etymology: Short for hocus pocus, hocus-pocus n., adj., and adv. †1. a. A conjuror, juggler. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer jugglera1100 tregetour1340 hey-passa1593 prestigiator1595 baffler1606 feat-worker1617 hocus-pocus1624 hocus1647 chirosophist1652 fascinator1677 legerdemain1696 prestidigitator1712 conjurer1727 sleight-of-hand man1757 nimble-fingers1781 sleight-of-hand professor1801 legerdemainist1830 magician1834 illusionist1850 jongleura1851 wizard1859 deceptionist1883 mentalist1906 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 36 Before a Scot can properly be curst, I must (like Hocus) swallow daggers first. 1663 Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces sig. M7^v On Hocas Pocas. Here Hocas lyes with his tricks and his knocks, Whom death hath made sure as his Juglers box. 1675 Coffee-Houses Vind. in Harl. Misc. VI. 473 Our pamphlet-monger (that sputters out senseless characters faster, than any hocus can vomit inkle). 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies ii. 33 Running mad after Buffons, Dice, Fortune tellers, and Hocus's. 1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (1714) xciv. 109 These Ordinary Hocusses..have been made use of in all ages. †b. transferred. A cheat, imposter, pretender. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] shondc725 faitoura1340 fob1393 trumper?c1450 feature14.. chuffera1500 prowler1519 truphane1568 cozener1575 cogger1580 pretender1583 impostor1586 mountebank1589 sycophant?1589 foolmonger1593 affronter1598 assumer1600 knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602 pettifogger1602 budgeter1603 quacksalver1611 empiric1614 putter-off?1615 quack1638 stafador1638 saltimbanco1646 adventurer1648 fourbe1668 shammer1677 imposer1678 charlatana1680 sham1683 cheat1687 hocus1692 gull1699 shamster1716 coal-blower1720 humbugger1752 gagger1781 fudge1794 humbug1804 potwalloper1820 twister1834 jackleg1844 fraud1850 bunyip1852 empiricist1854 Bayswater Captain1880 bluffer1888 putter-down1906 quandong1939 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 523 Just like that old formal Hocus, who denyed a Beggar a farthing, and put him off with his Blessing. 2. Jugglery, trickery, deception. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] swikec893 swikedomc893 dwalec950 braida1000 falsec1000 flerdc1000 swikelnessa1023 fakenOE chuffingc1175 fikenungc1175 bipechingc1200 treachery?c1225 falseshipc1230 guilec1230 telingc1230 swikeheada1250 craftc1275 felony1297 wrench1297 deceitc1300 gabc1300 guiling13.. guilery1303 quaintisec1325 wrenk1338 beswiking1340 falsehood1340 abetc1350 wissing1357 wilec1374 faitery1377 faiting1377 tregetryc1380 fallacec1384 trainc1390 coverture1393 facrere1393 ficklenessc1397 falsagea1400 tregeta1400 abusionc1405 blearingc1405 deceptionc1430 mean?c1430 tricotc1430 obreption1465 fallacy1481 japery1496 gauderya1529 fallax1530 conveyance1531 legerdemain1532 dole1538 trompe1547 joukery1562 convoyance1578 forgery1582 abetment1586 outreaching1587 chicanery1589 falsery1594 falsity1603 fubbery1604 renaldry1612 supercherie1621 circumduction1623 fobbinga1627 dice-play1633 beguile1637 fallaxitya1641 ingannation1646 hocus1652 renardism1661 dodgerya1670 knapping1671 trap1681 joukery-pawkery1686 jugglery1699 take-in1772 tripotage1779 trickery1801 ruse1807 dupery1816 nailing1819 pawkery1820 hanky-panky1841 hokey-pokey1847 suck-in1856 phenakisma1863 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 dodginess1871 jiggery-pokery1893 flim-flammery1898 runaround1915 hanky1924 to give the go-around1925 Scandiknavery1927 the twist1933 hype1955 mamaguy1971 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] colea1307 jugglingc1380 tregetryc1380 jugglerya1400 tregettingc1440 legerdemaina1450 jocularya1500 conveyance1531 prestigiation?c1550 conjuring1577 figgum1631 prestigion1635 sleight of handa1640 hocus-pocus1647 sleight1664 jugglementa1708 thaumaturgy1727 conjurationa1734 ventriloquism1797 magic1831 prestidigitation1841 hocus1854 conjury1855 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 41 I must not believe there was any Hocas in this. 1693 R. Gould Corrupt. Times 3 A quick Eye may all their Hocus see. 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiv. 164 Here..With neither gold nor tinsel, cap nor crown, Hocus nor title..nor conjuring-rod nor sceptre..To lie here thus. 3. Drugged liquor: cf. hocus v. 2 (In modern dictionaries.) Compounds hocus-trick n. juggling trick. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick colea1307 playa1475 conveyance1534 legerdemain?1544 prank1555 convoyance1578 sleight1596 pass1599 paviea1605 trick1609 sleight of handa1626 hocus-pocus1647 juggle1664 hocus-trickc1680 passe-passe1687 jugglementa1708 thaumaturgics1721 necromantics1745 conjuration1820 c1680 in Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V. 595 Three Kingdoms now at stake do lie, And Rooks all Hocus-tricks do try, That ye may be undone. 1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 81 Such holy Cheats, such Hocus Tricks as these, For Miracles amongst the Rabble pass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hocusv. Brit. /ˈhəʊkəs/, U.S. /ˈhoʊkəs/ Etymology: < hocus n.Supposed to be the source of the later hoax v., though the want of instances for the 18th cent. makes this less certain. Apparently revived in 19th cent., perhaps under the influence of hoax. 1. transitive. To play a trick upon, ‘take in’, hoax. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)] jape1362 bejape1377 play1562 jugglea1592 dally1595 trick1595 bore1602 jadea1616 to fool off1631 top1663 whiska1669 hocus1675 to put a sham upon1677 sham1677 fun?1685 to put upon ——1687 rig1732 humbug1750 hum1751 to run a rig1764 hocus-pocus1774 cram1794 hoax1796 kid1811 string1819 to play off1821 skylark1823 frisk1825 stuff1844 lark1848 kiddy1851 soap1857 to play it (on)1864 spoof1889 to slip (something) over (on)1912 cod1941 to pull a person's chain1975 game1996 1675 R. Head Proteus Redivivus 322 The Mercer cries, Was ever Man so Hocuss'd? however, I have enough to maintain me here. a1686 Nalson (T.) One of the greatest pieces of legerdemain, with which these jugglers hocus the vulgar and incautelous of the present age. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. vi. v. 203 There is nothing..I so revel in as hocussing Guizot and Aberdeen. 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. I. 368 These people have been hocussed and cheated by the Government. 2. To stupefy with drugs, esp. for a criminal purpose; hence, to drug (liquor). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > drug [verb (transitive)] narcotize1526 potion1611 druga1730 hocus1831 dope1889 slug1925 snow1927 bomb1950 hit1953 to hop up1968 1831 in Ann. Reg., Law Cases (1832) 321/2 [A witness] saw May put some gin into Bishop's tea. He said, ‘Are you going to hocus (or Burke) me?’ 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xiii. 127 ‘What do you mean by “hocussing” brandy and water?’..‘Puttin' laud'num in it,’ replied Sam. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 585 It was at her house at Lausanne that he was hocussed at supper and lost eight hundred pounds to Major Loder. 1885 J. Grant Royal Highlanders xviii. 154 By unfair play he had rooked many: he had hocussed horses. 1887 W. Besant World Went xviii. 148 You shall hocus his drink and put him on board. Derivatives ˈhocussed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > [adjective] drugged1812 hocussed1865 loaded1923 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > with drugs added hocussed1865 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xii. 277 I will not say a hocussed wine. ˈhocussing n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > [noun] intoxicating1652 narcotization1853 hocussing1854 1854 T. De Quincey On Murder (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay IV. 107 The landlord..they intended to disable by a trick then newly introduced amongst robbers, and termed hocussing. 1892 J. H. Middleton Anc. Rome II. 53 The bribing of jockeys and the ‘hocussing’ of horses and their drivers were familiar to the ancient Romans. ˈhocusser n. one who hocusses. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > [noun] > one who hocusser1862 1862 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 31/2 The ‘Drummer’ plunders by stupefaction; as the ‘hocusser’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1647v.1675
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