Slightly strange question, I know, but - does anyone know the meaning of the word "cokey"? The obviously use is in the "hokey-cokey", but the song which prompted this request is "Minnie the Moocher" with the line "She loved him, though he was cokey". Is this just Cab Calloway desperately trying to find a rhyme, or is this actually a word which has been lost? From context in Minnie the Moocher, it could just mean "dodgy" or "dubious". Or it could refer to him being black ("a guy named Smokey"), although I don't know if Cab would have written it like that. Or even Chinese, from the rest of that verse. Or a druggie (smoking coke)? If he's just after a rhyme, you'd have thought he could just have changed her boyfriend's name, though.

I don't know. Any ideas, folks? I'm not too bothered, cos I can just sing it, but sooner or later some bugger's going to ask me what it means, and then I'll be right up plop creek with no visible means of propulsion...

Grab.