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moke

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4 lettersPronunciation /məʊk/Part of speech nounSorted ekmoStarts with MEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. British informal for donkey

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • "[…] 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 […]

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