hockie n.
1. excrement, both human and animal.
in Transactions Amer. Philosophical Association XVII.37: Hockie is used in East Tennessee among little children, which may be connected with the original word ‘cacky,’ as also the exclamation of disgust used by an older person to a child that has befouled itself. | ||
DN II 236: Hawky , or hockey . . . Child’s word for go to stool. | ||
DN V 210: Hockey. . . Dung... To evacuate the bowels, applicable chiefly to that action on the part of a child. | ||
Down in the Holler 118: The word hockey means nothing but dung in the hill country. | ||
Snakes (1971) 28: I’ll smack the chicken hockey outta you. | ||
Dict. of Invective (1991) 194: hockey (hocky) [...] excrement. | ||
Ozark Folksongs and Folklore I 402: Hockey, excrement. |
2. (US) in fig. use, nonsense, lies.
G.S. Schuyler Black No More (1971) 81: Oh, that’s a lotta hockey. | ||
End as Man 80: ‘Don’t you try and hand me any of that hocky about being a white man!’ [...] after a while the nigger agreed he was a nigger. | ||
Savage Night (1991) 70: He was a writer, only [...] he called himself a hocky peddler. | ||
(con. 1945) Goodbye to Some (1963) 118: That is one hundred per cent pure hocky. | ||
Iron Orchard (1967) 157: ‘I don’t ’preciate you actin’ like I’m just shooting’ a bunch of hock [...] see? | ||
Dict. of Invective (1991) 194: hockey (hocky). [...] nonsense. |
3. semen.
Dict. of Invective (1991) 194: hockey (hocky). [...] semen. |