HOKEY DEFINITIONS - 4 definitions found
WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) 
hokey
adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
"a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin,
mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy,
sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]
2: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her
husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of
acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech
they develop a stilted pronunciation" [syn: artificial,
contrived, hokey, stilted]
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003)
hokey adjective (hokier; -est)
Date: 1927 1. corny I,3 <the usual hokey
melodrama> 2. obviously contrived ; phony <the plots
are tricky but not hokey — Cleveland Amory> • hokeyness
or hokiness noun • hokily adverb
Oxford English Reference Dictionary
hokey
adj. (also hoky) (hokier, hokiest) US sl. sentimental, melodramatic, artificial.
Derivatives:
hokeyness n. (also hokiness). hokily adv.
Etymology: HOKUM + -Y(2)
English Explanatory Dictionary
hokey
adj. (also hoky) (hokier, hokiest) US sl. sentimental, melodramatic,
artificial. øøhokeyness n. (also hokiness). hokily adv. [HOKUM + -Y(2)]
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