Definition of Hocusses

1. hocus [v] - See also: hocus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hocusses

hockled
hockles
hocklin
hockling
hocks
hockshop
hockshops
hocus
hocus-pocus
hocus pocus
hocused
hocuses
hocusing
hocuspocus
hocussed
hocusses (current term)
hocussing
hod
hod carrier
hod carriers
hodad
hodaddies
hodaddy
hodads
hodag
hodags
hodded
hodden
hoddengray
hoddens

Literary usage of Hocusses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... Muses' pure fount her fe«t, Ere she come trampling, like Pan, o'er my lilies and crocuses. My nectar 's pure till some satyr the rosy draught hocusses. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1887)
"staggering up to the poll, but ho " hocusses " what of intellect they possess, and leads them to the ballot-box in a state of mental intoxication. ..."

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