hoci-poci

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English

Noun

hoci-poci

  1. plural of hocus-pocus
    • 1921 November 26, John V[an] A[lstyne] Weaver, “Newspaperdom”, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 81, number 327, New York, N.Y., page 3, column 1:
      After the various hoci-poci had been achieved, we were led up to the graduate who shared at that time with Elihu Root and “Sunny Jim” Sherman the aura of considerable fame.
    • 1941 November 14, Bob Levin, “Grid Stars Adher To Own Peculiar Superstitions”, in The Daily Tar Heel, volume L, number 45, Chapel Hill, N.C., page 1, column 3:
      Maybe it’s just a disease which owes its origin to football, but anyhow—the boys who excel in speed, stamina, and muscle surely do have their share of pre-game hoci-poci.
    • 1945, Public Relations Journal, page 13, column 2:
      Black-robed judges, ponderous oaths of admission, apprenticeship notions and rigorous bar examinations, professional renunciation of self-advertisement and a hundred lesser hoci-poci characterize the brotherhood.
    • 1968 June 12, Eugene Callaway, “Mumbo-Jumbo”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, number 141, Montgomery, Ala., page 4, column 5:
      I also resent the fact that for an opportunistic politician, the whole country is thrown into mourning with all the mumbo-jumbo, incantations and even the hoci poci, while the 400-odd are offered as statistics.