moke
Americannoun
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mokes
plural
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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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The gawky camel shuffles along, a picture of woe with a load of 2 cwt. to 4 cwt., whilst the little moke trips smartly with almost an equal weight upon his back.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
You may cut a moke out o' pitch-pine, mate, and paint it, but can't make it walk.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 by Various
Provided all one's kit had been put on a cart, the easiest way was often to let the moke go where it liked, and walk on oneself without it.
From A Kut Prisoner by H. C. W. Bishop
Don't care for the baths, but there's sailing, and rollicking rides on a moke.
From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various
"Done," said I, and dragged the moke home.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde
“You been beefin’ with mokes already,” Mike said to me.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
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 Mary Gaunt
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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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 Charles Kingsley
"The good knights are dust, Their mokes are rust," misquoted Wally cheerfully.
From A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce
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