Moki
noun
Hopi.
Moki
American
[moh-kee]
/ ˈmoʊ ki /
Or
Moqui
noun
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Mokis,
plural
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Moki
plural
moki
British
/ ˈməʊkɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of moki
Māori
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And then it ends right back where they started with Charlie and Moki.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Without her crops, Ms Moki cannot feed her family or sell her produce to pay the school fees for her 10-year-old daughter.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
For Ms Moki, this conflict is taking a heavy toll on her mental health, compounded by her extreme lack of sleep.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
Last year, Brooklyn’s nonprofit Blank Forms gallery highlighted the atmospheric collaboration of experimental trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry, which defied genres and fully encapsulated their married lives.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
Visits were paid to the Moki villages in succession, obtaining drawings of some constructional details, and also traditions bearing on the ruins in that vicinity.
From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by John Wesley Powell
O kia ka piko o ke olona, Stripped off is the bark of the alona, Ihi a ka ili no moki no lena, Peeled is the bark of the yellow moki.
From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
The last locality to be brought under subjection was the Province of Tusayan, the home of the Mokis.
From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various
One migrated to the south—the Pimas, the Papagoes, the Maricopas; the others crossed the mountains to the north—the Zuñis, the Mokis, the Hopis.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
The Mokis also are careful to stir medicines according to the sinistral circuit.
From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson) Bergen
Even the Mokis, Tunis and Pimos still regard Mo-ti as immortal and await his return.
From Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado by Alexander McAllan
He had watched the Mokis while they danced with live rattlesnakes held between their lips.
From The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland
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