hockets

Meaning of hockets

plural noun

a spasmodic or interrupted effect in medieval and contemporary music, produced by dividing a melody between two parts, notes in one part coinciding with rests in the other.

late 18th century: from French hoquet ‘hiccup’; in Old French the sense was ‘hitch, sudden interruption’ which also existed in Middle English.

Information about hockets

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of hockets is: hocket.
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Hyphenation of hockets

hock-ets

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • hockets is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with hockets

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