hocus-pocus

hocus-pocus englannista suomeksi

1. sumutus

1. hokkuspokkus

1. Substantiivi

2. hokkuspokkus, hölynpöly

2. Verbi

hocus-pocus englanniksi

1. (non-gloss definition): abracadabra, presto.

2. Some ineffectual action or speech, especially if intended to divert attention; nonsense.

3. Religious or supernatural phenomena one holds to be nonsense or mere trickery; superstitious mumbo-jumbo.

4. (RQ:Haggard She)

5. (quote-book)

6. Some action out|carried out to about change as if by magic; a trick; of hand, trickery.

7. A conjurer.

8. A conjurer's trick.

9. To play tricks or practise of hand (on someone); to cheat, to deceive.

10. (RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop) use.|brackets=on

11. (quote-book)|year=1846|section=footnote|pages=457–458|passage=But it was possible to say something about Cahirciveen—that it has a nunnery, a market-house, a reading-room.(si) and a Fever Hospital, and, being just two miles from the Valentia slate-quarry, that its houses are slated; but it was impossible to say a single word in defence of Derrynane Beg;—so the two, though seventeen miles apart, were “hocussed-pocussed” together, and it all went down as gospel in Conciliation Hall, that because the houses of Cahirciveen were slated from the quarry close by, ''ergo'', my description of the wretched hovels of Derrynane Beg with their rotten potato-stalk thatches, was monstrously incorrect.

12. (quote-book)|year=1865|volume=III|page=197|passage=She was fair and above board dealing with her, and no hocusing-pocusing, and every farthing paid to the last shilling, though she ''did'' remark that sherry might have been three-and-six, and four were ru’nation ’igh.

13. (quote-book),(...)|year=1871|volume=III|page=227|passage=But jest argufy this t’other way, and then see how it’d be; for there ain’t no ladies as go marrying Codlings and Humpys—begging your pardon, Mr. Humpy—and Chequerses—not they; they’d be right down hocussed-pocussed and back-parloured in no time; and so, you see, it ain’t according, and all you said about veal pies and oat-cakes goes for nothing, Mr. Humpy.

14. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Publishing|Methuen and Company,(nb...)|year=1897|page=161|passage=He was an admirable mimic, so that he kept us roaring with laughter, as he hocussed-pocussed, and fussed and fumed like the former captain of the ''Water Sprite''.

15. (quote-journal)

16. (quote-journal)After ten minutes more of continual hocusing pocusing” it dawned upon George that he was the guy that had been “hocused pocused.”