hokey-pokey

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 120 words | Copyright

hokey-pokey
A. (dial.) hocus pocus;

B. cheap sort of ice-cream. XIX. In A alteration of HOCUS POCUS; in B of unkn. orig.

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