Lexicographical Neighbors of Hocusses
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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