moke

American  

[mohk] / moʊk /

noun

1. Older Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.

2. British Slang. a donkey.

3. Australian Slang. a poor-looking, inferior horse.

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moke British  

/ məʊk /

noun

1. a slang name for donkey

2. slang an inferior type of horse

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Etymology

Origin of moke

First recorded in 1840–50; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

The gawky camel shuffles along, a picture of woe with a load of 2 cwt. to 4 cwt., whilst the little moke trips smartly with almost an equal weight upon his back.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet

From starving moke you'll get no progress steady; The well-fed ass responds to "Gee-up, Neddy!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

An English coster’s moke is not to be named on the same day with the Cairo donkey, on which you can have a ride for a trifling sum.

From Cities of the Dawn by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

One day there appeared on the square at Passy a gray moke, with sores on its back, and drooping ears, one of those wretched mountebanks’ asses that Decamps and Fouquet used to paint so well.

From My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 by Gautier, Théophile

"Done," said I, and dragged the moke home.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.

Related Words

• burro
• horse
• mule