Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

moke

/moʊk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English

Syllables: moke
IPA: /moʊk/

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Colloquial

noun

The mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.

Obsolete

noun

A black person.

American usage; Archaic; Derogatory; Slang

noun

A performer, such as a minstrel, who plays on several musical instruments.

Dated

noun

A stupid person; a dolt.

noun

British small utility vehicle (styled "MOKE").

noun

A mixture of cannabis and tobacco, especially smoked from a bong or water pipe.

American usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."
""[…] Look at him! An old moke with long ears!”"
"Any trawl-net, whereof the moak holdeth not five inches size throughout."
"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 […]"
"Whoever infers that money is not happiness, is either a truist or a moke."

Etymology

Unknown. In the sense of a variety performer, comes from "The Lively Moke" (or "Musical Moke"), an 1860s blackface song, dance and multi-instrumental routine popularized by Johnny Thompson, William J. "Billy" Ashcroft and others.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /moʊk/
British English: /məʊk/

Usage

Inflected Forms

mokes (plural)

Rhymes With

broke joke smoke spoke stroke woke folk oak coke stoke choke soak

Questions

How do you pronounce moke?: The recorded pronunciation is /moʊk/.
What does moke mean?: A donkey.
Where does moke come from?: Unknown. In the sense of a variety performer, comes from "The Lively Moke" (or "Musical Moke"), an 1860s blackface song, dance and multi-instrumental routine popularized by Johnny Thompson, William J. "Billy" Ashcroft and others.

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