moke
noun
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
mokes
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pluralof moke.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“You been beefin’ with mokes already,” Mike said to me.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
His father's ice-cream business never had any fascination for the lad; but from the first his spirit drew him to the long-eared shaggy mokes of certain of the neighbours.
From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant
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
Do yer think the blooming blokes Cares a cuss for me and you, Jim, any more than for our mokes?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
"The good knights are dust, Their mokes are rust," misquoted Wally cheerfully.
From A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce
