Moke

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /məʊk/

Origin

Unknown.

Full definition of moke

Noun

1. (colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.
• 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 68:the Colonel ... 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.
2. A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
3. (US pejorative slang, now rare) A black person.