英 [ˈhəʊkəm] 美 [ˈhoʊkəm]
n. 胡扯，空话，废话
hokum /ˈhəʊkəm/
不可数名词 If you describe something as hokum, you think it is nonsense. 废话; 胡说
The book is enjoyable hokum.
该书是饶有趣味的胡扯。
a message that seems to convey no meaning
同义词： nonsense / bunk / nonsensicality / meaninglessness
... [hokum]∶滑稽，也指滑稽的话或举动 [trick]∶花招；鬼点子 [words or act meant to amuse or to excite laughter]∶笑料 ...
... histrionic a. 演员的,演剧的,有如演戏的n. 演员,演剧,戏剧性 hokum n. 废话 holistic adj. 整体的, 全盘的 ...
... rubbish 垃圾 hokum 噱头 codswallop< 英俚>胡言乱语...
hokum货掮么，搬来的情节 hold好奴得，好奴得了权柄与银子，宜用于好人得钱财、得城池地盘，也可用于好人得任何东西。
The book is enjoyable hokum.
该书是饶有趣味的胡扯。
No more hokum. I want the truth.
别再耍花招了！ 我要实话。
A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
真正的爱情是什么不努力忙碌，奢侈，豪华，而且为噱头。
More than thirty years later, the play, refurbished with a coherent psychological subtext, seems clearly more than metaphysical hokum.
Much of it was probably hokum cooked up by paranoids and far-right crazies.
The larger point is that the claim that CEOs are routinely paying lower rates than their secretaries is Omaha hokum.