mokeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /məʊk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /moʊk/
• 韻: -əʊk

名詞

moke (複数形 mokes)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.
   • 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 809623158:

     […] We do but as the world does; and a girl in our society accepts the best party which offers itself, just as Miss Chummey, when entreated by two young gentlemen of the order of costermongers, inclines to the one who rides from market on a moke, rather than to the gentleman who sells his greens from a handbasket.

   • ​[1889 January]​, Rudyard Kipling, “Only a Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], OCLC 903478325, pages 83–84:

     Some five years before, the Colonel Commanding […] 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.

   • 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Collins, 1998, Chapter 7,

     " […] Look at him! An old moke with long ears!”

2. (obsolete) The mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
   • 1604, (Please provide the book title または journal name):

     Any trawl-net, whereof the moak holdeth not five inches size throughout.

3. (US derogatory slang, ethnic slur, now rare) A black person.
   • 1904: "When Mr. Shakespeare comes to town" by William Jerome

     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 […]

4. (dated, theatrical スラング) A performer, such as a minstrel, who plays on several musical instruments.
5. A stupid person; a dolt.
   • 1868, Punch (volumes 54-55, page 231)

     Whoever infers that money is not happiness, is either a truist or a moke.

6. British small utility vehicle (styled "MOKE").