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Hoʹcussed

.

Hoaxed, cheated, tampered with; as, “This wine is hocussed.”

“Was ever man so hocussed?”


Art of Wheedling, p. 322.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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