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moke

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moke  (mk)
n. Slang
1. A dull or boring person.
2. Chiefly British A donkey.
3. Australian An old, broken-down horse.
[Origin unknown.]
moke [məʊk]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Brit a slang name for donkey [1]
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Austral slang an inferior type of horse
[origin obscure]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mokemoke - British informal for donkey          
domestic ass, donkey, Equus asinus - domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
Translations
moke [məʊk] N (Brit) → burro m


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Some five years before, the Colonel commanding had looked into the fourteen fearless eyes of seven plump and juicy subalterns who had all applied to enter the Staff Corps, and 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.
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