hokey-pokey

Updated: January 31, 2026

Maybe my fightin's been my punishment, Jimmy, but I never struck a man a foul blow." "And what was your hokey-pokey?" the pungy captain cried to the man who had been making so much religious din. "Did they sell you fur never knowin' whar to stop a good thing?"

George Alfred Townsend - The Entailed Hat: Or, Patty Cannon's Times