"hoky-poky" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more hoky-poky [comparative], most hoky-poky [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} hoky-poky (comparative more hoky-poky, superlative most hoky-poky)
  1. Fraudulent; trickish.
    Sense id: en-hoky-poky-en-adj-5wnRc~3C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplications, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} hoky-poky
  1. Alternative form of hokey pokey (“frozen snack”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: hokey pokey (extra: frozen snack)
    Sense id: en-hoky-poky-en-noun-fCenUoKr
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 119, The Candles”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!",
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          "ref": "1876, Benjamin D-------, his little dinner:",
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