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moke
UK /məʊk/ US /moʊk/
noun 5
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3ADJ.
long, old
MOKE + NOUN
ears
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
A donkey.
[…] We do but as the world does; and a girl in our society accepts the best party which offers itself, just as Miss Chummey, when entreated by two young gentlemen of the order of costermongers, inclines to the one who rides from market on a moke, rather than to the gentleman who sells his greens from a handbasket.
Some five years before, the Colonel Commanding […] had asked them why the three stars should he, a Colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put on condemned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments.
2
The mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
Any trawl-net, whereof the moak holdeth not five inches size throughout.
3
A black person.
I don't like the Minstrel folks, and I doesn't care for the endmen's jokes; I has no use for the musical mokes, and I don't like a circus clown […]
4
A performer, such as a minstrel, who plays on several musical instruments.
5
A stupid person; a dolt.
Whoever infers that money is not happiness, is either a truist or a moke.
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[…] We do but as the world does; and a girl in our society accepts the best party which offers itself, just as Miss Chummey, when entreated by two young gentlemen of the order of costermongers, inclin
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Some five years before, the Colonel Commanding […] had asked them why the three stars should he, a Colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put on condemned t
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"[…] Look at him! An old moke with long ears!”
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