Talk:moko
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Equinox in topic Possible missing sense: pheasant shot by mistake
Possible missing sense: pheasant shot by mistake edit
John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) has this interesting word (which I couldn't easily cite from Google Books):
- Moko, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake during September, before the pheasant-shooting comes in. They pull out their tails, and roundly assert that they are no pheasants at all, but mokos.