moke
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He described us as 'bloomin' 'aughty,' and 'not enough brass to buy a moke.'
From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Charles Turley
You offers in this 'ere paper a bloomin' quid to any bloke as gives information about your moke.
From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A wild ass, though brought up from its birth in a stable, would make a very intractable costermonger's moke.
From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken
Sollicker turned his moke loose in the paddock; I tied my horse to the fence; and we entered the house.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
“Who stole p. 175the moke, Anna?” asked suspicion; and the answer came, “The man in the chapeau blanc.”
From Lost Leaders by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge
“You been beefin’ with mokes already,” Mike said to me.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
For there they were all turned into mokes with ears a yard long, for meddling with matters which they do not understand, as Lucius did in the story.
From The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Warwick Goble
"The good knights are dust, Their mokes are rust," misquoted Wally cheerfully.
From A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce
But in a week or two, lazy as the mokes were, Jack could n't grapple either of them, stabbard or port, in the open paddock; they had learned to await, and even approach him, starn-on.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Do yer think the blooming blokes Cares a cuss for me and you, Jim, any more than for our mokes?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
