different between moke vs moue

English

Etymology

Unknown. In the sense of a variety performer, comes from "The Lively Moke" (or "Musical Moke"), an 1860s blackface song, dance and multi-instrumental routine popularized by Johnny Thompson, William J. "Billy" Ashcroft and others.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??k/

Noun

moke (plural mokes)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.
   • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter, [1]

     " […] 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."

   • 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.

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

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

2. A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.

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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. A stupid person; a dolt.
5. (dated, theatrical slang) A performer, such as a minstrel, who plays on several musical instruments.

Esperanto

Etymology

moki +? -e

Adverb

moke

1. mockingly

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

moke

1. Alternative form of muk

Etymology 2

Verb

moke

1. Alternative form of mukken

Slovene

Noun

moke

1. genitive singular of moka

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Compare mow (“grimace”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /mu?/
• Homophone: moo

Noun

moue (plural moues)

1. A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. [from 19th c.]

Usage notes

Often used in the phrase “make a moue”, influenced by French faire la moue (“to pout”).

Translations

Further reading

• “moue”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• meou

Afrikaans

Noun

moue (plural of mou)

1. sleeves

French

Etymology

From Middle French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/

Noun

moue f (plural moues)

1. pout, moue

Derived terms

• faire la moue

Further reading

• “moue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).