thokeadj.n.

/θəʊk/

Etymology: Late Middle English; origin unascertained.

Now dialect.

†A. adj.

Not firm or solid; unsound. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 491/2 Thoke, as onsadde fysche, humorosus.

B. n.

†1. An unsound fish: see quots. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > unsound or inferior fish

thoke1482

rough fish1816

garbage fish1841

offal1859

shack1904

junk fish1930

1482 Rolls of Parl. 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.]

1494–5 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 23 Without medling and packing of Thokys or broken belied fisshe with the seid tale fisshe or small fisshe.

1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 259 Of barrelled Fish. Grills, Thokes, &c.

2. dialect, School slang. (See quots.)

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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > period of lazing or lounging

lounge1806

laze1862

thoke1891

bludge1945

a1485 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch. MS., ed. 1908) 97 Cowerde, herteles, long choke [suggested reading 582 thoke], vecors.]

1891 R. G. K. Wrench Winchester Word-bk. Thoke,..a rest, a lying in bed, an idling.

Derivatives

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thoke v. ‘to lie late in bed’, to be idle; thoke on, to look forward to.

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ˈthokester n. an idler’ ( Winchester Word-bk.).

ˈthokish adj. see quots.

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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective]

sweerc725

foridledc1230

idlea1300

faintc1325

recrayed1340

slewful1340

nicea1398

sleuthya1400

delicate?c1400

sleuthfulc1400

slothfulc1400

sloth1412

lurdanc1480

luskinga1500

luskish15..

droning1509

bumbard?a1513

slottery1513

desidiousa1540

lazy1549

slovening1549

truanta1550

sleuth1567

litherly1573

truantly1579

dronish1580

lubberly1580

truant-like1583

shiftless1584

sluggard1594

fat1598

lusky1604

sweatless1606

clumse1611

easeful1611

loselly1611

do-littlea1613

sluggardisha1627

pigritious1638

drony1653

murcid1656

thokisha1682

shammockinga1704

indolent1710

huddroun1721

nothing-doing1724

desidiose1727

lusk1775

slack-twisted1794

sweert1817

bone-lazya1825

lurgy1828

straight-backed1830

do-nothing1832

slobbish1833

bone idle1836

slouch1837

lotophagous1841

shammocky1841

bein1847

thoky1847

lotus-eating1852

fainéant1855

sluggardly1865

lazy-boned1875

do-naught1879

easy-going1879

lazyish1892

slobbed1962

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) viii. 146 Words..of common use in Norfolk..as..Thokish.

1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) Pref. sig. A11^v Thokish, slothful, sluggish, I have no account to give of.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Thokish, slothful; sluggish. East.

thoky adj. dialect see quot.

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