hookum

English edit

Noun edit

hookum (plural hookums)

(India, obsolete) An order; a command.

Related terms edit

hakim

References edit

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “hookum”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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