moke

English

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /məʊk/

Noun

moke (plural mokes)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 68:

     the Colonel [...] 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. A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

3. (US pejorative slang, now rare) A black person.