hocusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊkəs/
• 韻: -əʊkəs

動詞

hocus (三人称単数 現在形 hocuses または hocusses, 現在分詞 hocusing または hocussing, 過去形および過去分詞形 hocused または hocussed)

1. To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat.
   • 1677, Poor Robin’s Visions, London: Arthur Boldero, Eighth Vision, p. 117,^[1]

     […] to contemplate the miseries of a poor Poetick life, or study some well laid plot to Hocus his Landlady into a further credence or belief […]

   • 1847, James Orchard Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, London: John Russell Smith, p. 453,^[2]

     HOCUS. To cheat. Hence the more modern term hoax.

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 11”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:

     “Well, I reckon you have lived in the country. I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again […] .”

   • 1936, Miles Franklin, All That Swagger, Chapter 20,^[3]

     “You really are married by a priest or parson, not just hocussing me?”

2. (obsolete) To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them).
   • 1855, Thomas De Quincey, “Three Memorable Murders: A Sequel to ‘Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’” in The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, p. 65,^[4]

     […] but him they intended to disable by a trick then newly introduced amongst robbers, and termed hocussing, i. e., clandestinely drugging the liquor of the victim with laudanum […]

   • 1862, Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life, London: Griffin, Bohn, Introduction, § 4, p. 46,^[5]

     The last of the criminal cases are the thieves, who admit of being classified as follows: […] (2.) Those who hocus or plunder persons by stupefying […]

   • 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “The Bearer of the Bowstring”, in The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, OCLC 1903243, page 207:

     […] he frantically reiterated his charge, that he had been robbed and hocussed in that house, that night, by Mrs. Brandon.

     [6]

   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, “The Hocussing of Cigarette” in Baroness Orczy’s Old Man in the Corner: The Old Man in the Corner, The Case of Miss Elliott, The Glasgow Mystery, Landsville, Pennsylvania: Coachwhip Publications, 2010, p. 243,^[7]

     Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.

3. (obsolete) To drug (liquor).
   • 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 12, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, OCLC 1016551263:

     […] I think the wine of them two Governors was—I will not say a hocussed wine, but fur from a wine as was elthy for the mind.