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"I don't hear the violin, however," said Lambert lazily, and thinking what a picturesque girl she was in her many-hued rag-tag garments, and with the golden coins glittering in her black hair. "You will, rye, you will," she said confidentially. "Come, my darling gentleman, cross my hand with silver and I dance. I swear it. No hokkeny baro will you behold when the wind pipes for me."
"Hokkeny baro." "A great swindle, my wise sir. Hai, what a pity you cannot patter the gentle Romany tongue. Kek! Kek! What does it matter, when you speak Gentile gibberish like an angel. Sit, rye, and I dance for you." "Quite like Carmen and Don José in the opera," murmured Lambert, sliding down to the foot of the rude stone. "What of her and of him? Were they Romans?"
I believe that it first made its appearance in English slang as covey, and was then pronounced cuvvy, being subsequently abbreviated into cove. Quite a little family of words has come into English from the Rommany, Hocben, huckaben, hokkeny, or hooker, all meaning a lie, or to lie, deception and humbug.
This is done, and the Rommany dye adroitly making up a parcel resembling the one laid down, steals the latter, leaving the former. Mr Barrow calls this hokkeny baro, the great swindle. I may remark, by the way, that among jugglers and "show-people" sleight of hand is called hanky panky.
Pilferin' and Bilberin'. Khapana and Hopper. Hoppera-glasses. The little wooden Bear. Huckeny Ponkee, Hanky Panky, Hocus-pocus, and Hokkeny Baro. Burning a Gipsy Witch alive in America. Daniel in the Lions' Den. Gipsy Life in Summer. The Gavengroes. The Gipsy's Story of Pitch- and-Toss. "You didn't fight your Stockings off?" The guileless and venerable Gipsy.
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