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hoity-toity
adjectivenounLow
/ˌhɔɪ.ti ˈtɔɪ.ti/Behaviour or attitude that is haughty, snobbish, pretentious, or self-importantly superior.
hojo
nounVery Low
/ˈhəʊ.dʒəʊ/In the UK, a colloquial term for a prison or cell. In the US, a chiefly historical term referring to the administrative head of the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates in feudal Japan.
hoka
nounLow
/ˈhəʊkə/A specific type of athletic running shoe or walking shoe designed with a pronounced, oversized sole for maximum cushioning and rocker geometry.
hokan
nounRare
/ˈhəʊkən/Relating to a proposed grouping or family of Native American languages spoken in parts of North America, primarily in California and Mexico.
hoke
nounverbverb-transitiveVery Low
/həʊk/To act or perform in an excessively sentimental, melodramatic, or exaggerated manner; to overplay emotions.
hokey cokey
nounLow
/ˌhəʊki ˈkəʊki/A popular participative dance and song, performed in a group, where people follow a set of instructions to put different body parts 'in' and 'out' of a circle.
hokey-pokey
nounLow
/ˌhəʊ.ki ˈpəʊ.ki/A children's song and dance with actions in which participants shake different parts of their body.
hoki
nounC1
/ˈhəʊki/A medium to large deep-sea fish (Macruronus novaezelandiae) of the hake family, commercially fished, especially in New Zealand waters.
hokinson
nounVery Low / Obscure
/ˈhəʊkɪnsən/
hokkaido
nounLow
/hɒˈkaɪdəʊ/The second largest, northernmost, and least developed of Japan's four main islands.
hokkaido wolf
nounVery low
/hɒˈkaɪ.dəʊ ˈwʊlf/An extinct subspecies of gray wolf (Canis lupus hattai) that was native to the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
hokku
nounC2
/ˈhɒkuː/The opening stanza of a traditional Japanese collaborative linked-verse poem (renga), which became the independent form now known as haiku.
hokonui
nounVery Low / Obscure
/ˌhɒkəˈnuːi/A term primarily associated with a historic moonshine whisky illegally produced in the Hokonui Hills region of Southland, New Zealand.
hokum
nounLow
/ˈhəʊ.kəm/Nonsense, pretentious or meaningless talk or ideas; bunk.
hokusai
nounLow
/ˌhəʊkʊˈsaɪ/A specific Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), famous for ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings.
hol hamoed
nounC2
/hɒl hɑːˈməʊɛd/The intermediate days of a Jewish holiday.
holarchy
nounC2
/ˈhɒl.ɑː.ki/A system where each entity (a 'holon') is simultaneously a whole and a part of a larger whole.
holbein
nounLow
/ˈhɒlbaɪn/A proper noun referring to the German Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497–1543), known for his portraits, particularly of the Tudor court.
holberg
nounVery Low
/ˈhɒlbɜːɡ/A surname of Scandinavian origin, most famously associated with Ludvig Holberg, an 18th-century Danish-Norwegian playwright and historian.
holbrook
nounLow
/ˈhəʊlbrʊk/A proper noun, most commonly a surname or a place name.

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