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▪ I. moke1 dial.|məʊk|
Also 7 pl. mockes.
[Assumed sing. of mokes:—OE. máx net: see mesh.]
A mesh of a net. Also pl. wicker-work.
1604Hastings Corpor. Rec. 4 Aug., in Cooper Sussex Gloss. (1853) 61 Any trawl-net, whereof the moak holdeth not five inches size throughout. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric., Dict. Rust., The Mocks of a net, the mashes of a net. 1674Ray S. & E. C. Words 72 The Mokes of a net. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Moke, the mesh of a net. Also wicker-work, perhaps from the resemblance to the meshes of a net. Norf.
▪ II. moke2 slang and dial.|məʊk|
[Of unknown origin. Cf. dial. mokus donkey (Hampshire, Devon).
In the 16th c. proverbial phrase ‘Mocke (or Mok) hath lost her shoe’ (Skelton Why Nat to Courte, 83, Garlande of Laurell 1396) it is possible that Mocke is a name for a donkey or a mare (cf. Skelton's use of mockish a.), but connexion with the modern moke is unlikely. Senses 4 and 5 may be etymologically distinct.]
1. A donkey.
1848[J. L. Tupper] in Art & Poetry No. 3 (1850) 131 They might live like gods, have infinite smokes, Drink infinite rum, drive infinite mokes. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 85/1, I had a good moke (donkey), and a tidyish box ov a cart. 1854Thackeray Newcomes xxx, Miss Chummey..inclines to the one [sc. of the costermongers] who rides from market on a moke rather than to the gentleman who sells his greens from a hand-basket. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. viii. 305 But he saw the end of such fellows, when he came to the island of the Golden Asses... For they were all turned into mokes with ears a yard long, for meddling with matters which they do not understand. 1871J. R. Green Lett. (1901) 286 At last I have resumed my donkey... Never was such a moke. She rushes at the steepest hillside.
2. transf. ‘A stupid fellow, a dolt’ (Cent. Dict. 1890); = donkey 2.
1855D. G. Rossetti Let. 25 Nov. (1965) I. 282 He has an irreconcilable grudge against a poor moke of a fellow called Archer Gurney. 1873J. A. Mair Handbk. Proverbs 459 Moke, an old person, disrespectfully spoken to. 1915Dialect Notes IV. 199 Terms of disparagement..moke about the same meaning and usage as mutt, or boob.
3. Australian slang. A very inferior horse.
1879in L. A. Smith Music of Waters (1888) 356 For many a long time he tried a Derby to win, But I was the moke to carry him in. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. viii. 105, I am regular shook on this old moke. 1891Argus (Melbourne) 12 May 6/3, I have exchanged my hired moke for a fine black horse. 1898in M. Davitt Life & Progr. Australia xxxv. 191 And a bosom friend's a ‘cobber’ And a horse a ‘prad’ or ‘moke’. 1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxvi. 220 My old moke flung a shoe and went dead lame. 1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xiii. 210 If I lend you my mokes, the bridles are mine if you win. 1943‘W. Hatfield’ I find Austral. 53 He's an old quiet moke these days.
4. U.S. A Negro.
1856C. White Oh, Hush! 9 Rose, don't you interfere, I'll show dis moke a sight. 1871,1879in Schele de Vere Americanisms. 1882G. W. Peck Peck's Sunshine 53 They want to hear old fashioned negro melodies, and yet these mokes will tackle Italian opera. 1901Cosmopolitan Sept. 637/2 Across the stage have paraded long processions of ‘musical mokes’, ‘knock-abouts’ and ‘monologists’. 1945Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 635 Moke was thrown into competition with coon in 1899 by the success of ‘Smokey Mokes’, a popular song by Holzmann and Lind.
5. Theatrical slang. ‘A variety performer who plays on several instruments’ (Cent. Dict. 1890).
▪ III. moke3 dial.
Also moak.
[Of obscure origin. Cf. Sc. moch a. and muggy a.; also Sw. dial. moket cloudy (Rietz).]
A mist, fog.
1866J. E. Brogden Lincoln. Gloss., Moke,..a mist, foggy thick weather. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss., Moke,..cloud and dampness together.
Hence ˈmoky a. dial. (See quots.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Moky, (old Word) cloudy; as Moky Weather. 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict., Moky weather, tempestas caliginosa. 1866J. E. Brogden Lincoln. Gloss., Moaky, hazy, dull, dark, weather.
▪ IV. moke
obs. form of mock, muck n. and v. |