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Moke vs Oke - What's the difference?

moke | oke |

As nouns the difference between moke and oke

is that moke is a donkey while oke is a Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian and Wallachian unit of weight, equal to about 2 & 3/4 lbs.

moke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.
    • (Thackeray)
  • *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.
  • A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A black person.

    • oke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) okka,"oke." *OED 2nd edition. 1989. (online) "oka." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1).'' Random House, Inc. 2009. from (etyl) , from (etyl) ''uncia .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, or, obsolete) A Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian and Wallachian unit of weight, equal to about 2 & 3/4 lbs.
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa, slang) man; guy; bloke
  • * 1998 , Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's Lekker, Thick South African Joke Book (page 106)
    • An oke meets up with his ex-wife at a party. After a few dops, he puts his arm around her and suggests they go to bed. 'Over my dead body,' she snarls at him. He downs his drink and says, 'I see you haven't changed.'
  • * 2005 , Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex
    • I had initiated an African ritual by giving the pipe to him. And you can never stay befuck with an oke you smoke nchangu with.

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