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say it: HOH-kee
hokey is an adjective meaning "effusively or insincerely emotional". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊki/ — HOH-kee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
artificially formal
“that artificial humility that her husband hated”
“contrived coyness”
“a stilted letter of acknowledgment”
“when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hokey come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.