Definition of "mokes" [mokes]

• Plural form of moke. (noun)

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• "Christopher Sly, from the ale-house door, if caught while the Merry Duke had possession of him, must be chronicled for a peer of the realm; Bully Bottom, if the period of his translations fell in with the census-taking, must be numbered among the cadgers '"mokes"; nay, if Dogberry himself had encountered the officials at the moment of his pathetic lamentation, he were irrevocably written down "an ass.""
• "The "mokes" are so well trained -- or is it that they have traversed the same ground so often? that, in spite of all tugging at the reins, and the administration of thundering applications of your heel in the abdominal region, they will insist upon conducting you to a locality well understood, but of no very pronounced respectability."
• "Mess-hall waiters are sometimes called "mokes," while at other times the names of certain exalted dignitaries of the Navy"