Hokum – pretentious nonsense

Website: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hokum

I didn’t really know how to encounter this word because I never heard of this word before. In class, we said Hokum means something that is fake. To me, Hokum doesn’t sound like something is fake.

Example: The fun house featured the giant face of an ogre, twenty feet from chin to crown, nearly that wide, a dimensional sculpture of such imaginative detail that it managed to be scary at the same time that it was pure hokum.