hoker

See also: höker

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoker, hocour, from Old English hōcor.

Noun

hoker (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) scorn; derision; abusive talk
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: Reeve's Prologue and Tale

     She was as digne as water in a dich, / As ful of hoker and of bismare.

Derived terms

• hokerly

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hoker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hoːˈkɛɾ/

Noun

1. adverb