subs. (Winchester College and prov.).—Rest: spec. lying in bed. Hence as verb = to lie in bed late. THOKESTER = an idler; THOKY (or THOKISH) = idle. Also TO THOKE UPON = to anticipate with pleasure: e.g., ‘I’m THOKING on next week; what a THOKE it will be, with a Leave-out day, a Hatch-THOKE, and a half remedy’ (WRENCH).
1899. Public School Magazine, Dec., 465. He attributed his success—or, at any rate, his long survival—to the art of THOKING: … which he had laboriously acquired during his first years of office.
