moke

Definitions

1. A donkey.
   colloquial, dialectal
2. The mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
   obsolete
3. A black person.
   US, archaic, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur
4. A performer, such as a minstrel, who plays on several musical instruments.
   dated
5. A stupid person; a dolt.
6. British small utility vehicle (styled "MOKE").
7. A mixture of cannabis and tobacco, especially smoked from a bong or water pipe.
   US, slang

Examples

“[…] 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.”

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