[Ads-l] Fw: Antedating of "Hokum"

[Pete Morris]

>From a Victorian Mummers play 1860s

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Book_of_Days/E28oAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22hokum+shokum%22&pg=PA741&printsec=frontcover

  Here come I , a Doctor ,
  a ten - pound Doctor ,
With my little bottle in my pocket ;
Called hokum , shokum , alicampane ,
I'll touch his eyes , nose , mouth , and chin .
And say , “ Rise , dead man!" and he'll fight again.

It seems to have been widely published into the 20th century.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/T_P_s_Weekly/b5lFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hokum+&dq=hokum+&printsec=frontcover

Hokum shokum  used as a term for 'a miraculous remedy'  in Wales circa 
1911

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Country_Life/9jpOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22and+the+%C2%B7+Hokum+Shokum+%27+of+the+Welsh%22&dq=%22and+the+%C2%B7+Hokum+Shokum+%27+of+the+Welsh%22&printsec=frontcover

Used in a theatrical sense 1905

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Bundle_of_Burnt_Cork_Comedy/Cek7AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hokum&dq=hokum+&printsec=frontcover

And another cite 1905/6

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Shields_Magazine/vcIRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hokum&dq=hokum&printsec=frontcover





------ Original Message ------
>From "Bill Mullins" <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 18/07/2022 15:39:57
Subject Fw: Antedating of "Hokum"

>slightly earlier:
>
>1906 New York _Evening World's Home Magazine_ 27 Jan 9/7
>But it's the auto with effects that's the sure-fire hokum in musical comedies these days.
>
>
>>  hokum (OED 1917)
>>
>>  1906 _Evening World_ (N.Y.) 3 Mar. 9/5 (Newspapers.com)  What's sure-fire hokum? Well, it all
>>  depends. If it is for a lady star you can use two kinds of hokum.
>>
>>  Fred Shapiro
>
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