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Meaning of moke | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/məʊk/

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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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