moke

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moke (MOHK) - n., (UK slang) a donkey; (Aus slang) a nag; (slang) a slow or stupid person, a dolt.


Other more specialized slang uses include theatrical a minstrel who plays on several musical instruments, and outdated derogatory US slang a black person. Ultimate origin unknown (the donkey sense was first) but the theater sense comes from a blackface routine from the 1960s, and so in some way intertwined with the derogatory one. FWIW, I met it in the slowtop sense.

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