Roke vs Moke - What's the difference?
roke | moke |
(UK, dialect) mist; smoke; damp
(UK, dialect) A vein of ore.
(colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.
*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.
A black person.
As a noun roke
is (uk|dialect) mist; smoke; damp.roke
English
Alternative forms
* roak, rook, roukNoun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
moke
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Thackeray)
- (Halliwell)