What's the difference between hokey and slushy?

Hokey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) EU hokey-cokey: in, out, shake it all about (not necessarily in that order) | Letter Read more “It is interesting that both sides want to adopt Boris,” one Johnson ally said.
  • (2) Justice League is supposedly due in just two years' time, and we still don't have the standalone Wonder Woman movie required to bring that rather hokey old character into the burgeoning "darker" Nolanesque take on the DC universe.
  • (3) Last May’s bizarre resignation hokey cokey – was he out or was he in?
  • (4) Would MPs from Scotland be brought back in what a Scottish Labour MP George Foulkes called a kind of 'legislative hokey-cokey', to vote just on these particular clauses?
  • (5) Nick Clegg is adopting what we might call the hokey-cokey position.
  • (6) Two years prior to this, Kearney condemned the, er… hokey cokey .
  • (7) I don’t mean nice in the “Aw shucks, little ol’ me?” hokey Tom Hanks kind of nice .
  • (8) Rise began a little hokey, and no one is going to accuse Freida Pinto of giving a good performance, but take state-of-the-art motion capturing, ambiguous moral culpability, a few bananas and you have a thrilling action film.
  • (9) Admittedly a little hokey, as films about the Irish by the English tend to be, it categorically did not deserve the backlash it received: 'The art it represents belongs to that school of very classy calendar art supported by airlines, insurance corporations and a few enlightened barber shops.
  • (10) But as a Cambridge University study has shown, the process is likely to prove little more than a game of Euro hokey cokey, with the risk that Britain ends up compromising its ability to police international crimes such as terrorism and drug trafficking.
  • (11) 9.51pm BST 90+2 min: … after the ball hokey-cokeys in and out of the box, it eventually drops to Sergio Ramos who can't make a clean connection from eight yards out.
  • (12) He delivers a homespun message of hard work and self-reliance, of dreaming big and being able to look in the mirror each night and be proud of yourself which verges on the hokey, but the rapt attention of his audience makes it hard to be cynical.
  • (13) That Easton crossover, from local girl made good, through the agency of hokey telly and novelty-song pop charts, to global star, riding high in the Billboard charts, the chosen workmate of this extraordinary creature, Prince?
  • (14) Game stories are often pretty hokey, but they're compelling because we're in control.
  • (15) Photograph: SA Mathieson The last event is held alongside Rhymetime, whose infant participants fill the library with Hokey Cokey.
  • (16) and hapless cod romance, interspersed with hokey landmine photo-ops and scenic cultural detours through Lahore".
  • (17) The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, branded Robinson’s move as “hokey-cokey” politics with one leg in the devolved government and one leg out.
  • (18) I know it sounds a bit hokey, but we’re closer to nature.
  • (19) Ed Miliband mocked the prime minister for a "weekend Hokey Cokey".
  • (20) Given the way Warner allowed Entourage to lampoon the king of Atlantis a few years back, you might think the studio would be loth to include that slightly hokey old character in the more realistic universe it launched with last year's Man of Steel.

Slushy


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And remember, if you buy a beer, drink it fast - it's be a slushy in no time.
  • (2) He is currently employing a slushy mixture of patronage and coercion to build up his network, but these things take time.
  • (3) A plodding storm that dumped heavy snow on the unsuspecting mid-Atlantic region left roads slippery and slushy in the Northeast for Monday's commute while travel disruptions continued rippling across the country days after the same system first began wreaking havoc in the skies.
  • (4) Elizabeth Gilbert’s relationship with Jose Nunes was the basis of her best-known books, from Eat, Pray, Love (made into a predictably slushy Hollywood film ) to Committed, her book about her marriage.
  • (5) One 17-year-old witness for the prosecution said the complainant and their companions took 'slushie' cups of vodka to drink at the party.
  • (6) Slushy, but very thin, and can certainly wear a frock.
  • (7) "Parents should by all means let their young kids have a go at snowboarding, especially if the snow is slushy, but they shouldn't expect to leave the nursery slopes or Riglet parks whereas, with skiing, you can travel as a family more.
  • (8) Freezing is accomplished by rapid propulsion of the grid, with specimens attached, into slushy N2 (-210 degrees C) within the drying chamber; drying is automatic, by either sublimation under vacuum or by solvent substitution using absolute ethanol followed by acetone, which, in turn, is removed with a critical-point dryer.

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