moke
Americannoun
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Older Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
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British Slang. a donkey.
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Australian Slang. a poor-looking, inferior horse.
noun
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a slang name for donkey
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slang an inferior type of horse
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of moke
First recorded in 1840–50; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Hullo, old chap, so you've taken to a moke at last, eh?
From Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show by Anstey, F.
An English coster’s moke is not to be named on the same day with the Cairo donkey, on which you can have a ride for a trifling sum.
From Cities of the Dawn by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Why, I wouldn’t refuse a well-cooked bit of the toughest old moke that ever dragged a cart.”
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by Fenn, George Manville
Don't care for the baths, but there's sailing, and rollicking rides on a moke.
From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various
I have an old police rifle, and every three months or so, when my stock of beef is low, I saddle my old pack moke, and start off to the ranges.
From The Call Of The South 1908 by Becke, Louis
“You been beefin’ with mokes already,” Mike said to me.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
Well, the point of that story is that the pace of that old coach and six mokes, I assure you, has always seemed to me faster than any motor I've ever driven.
From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
There ain't any shade, unless you count the shadows of our poor old mokes, and mine's so poor, I 'll bet the sun can find his way through his ribs.
From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Gaunt, Mary
For there they were all turned into mokes with ears a yard long, for meddling with matters which they do not understand, as Lucius did in the story.
From The Water-Babies by Kingsley, Charles
Then we'd give our mokes a drink in the middle of 'em, and we'd take a pull at our own water-bags.
From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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