1719. T. Durfey, Pills to Purge, vi. 336. There's a new set of Rakes, Entitled mohacks, Who infest Her Majesties subjects.
1755. Gentlemen's Mag., xxv. 65. The mohocks and Hell-Fire-Club, the heroes of the last generation.
1825. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, 1. ch. viii. Some loitering rascal who has been out a mohawking to-day.
1839. Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard [Dick's ed.], p. 58. He's the leader of the mohocks.
1861. Sala, Twice Round the Clock, 4 a. m. Par. 9. A Billingsgate fish-fag, was more than a match for a mohock.
1882. Punch, lxxxii. 83. 'The Mohock Revival.' That ancient form of ruffianism known as mohockism.
1889. Clarkson and Richardson, Police, 7. These were the Muns . . . the Hectors . . . and the mohocks.
Mohican, subs. (obsolete).—See
quot.
1848. Tait's Mag., 2 S. xv. 309. A mohican, in Cadonian phraseology, is a tremendously heavy man, who rides five or six miles [in an omnibus] for sixpence.
Moiety, subs. (old).—1. See quots.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Moiety, fifty.
2. (colloquial).—A wife.
Moisten, verb. (common).—To
drink; to lush (q.v.). Also to
moisten one's chaffer (or
clay).
Moke, subs. (common).—1. An ass.
English synonyms. Baldwin; cuddy (Scots'); donkey; Dick; Edward; Issachar; Jack; Jenny; Jerusalem; Jerusalem pony; King of Spain's trumpeter; long-*ears; myla; Neddy.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., ii. 85. I had a good moke, and a tidyish box of a cart.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, xxx. The one who rides from market on a moke.
1856. Punch, xxxi. 218. We understand that the directors have been actually challenged by a sporting minded costermonger who has offered to back his moke against the fastest engine.
1866. G. A. Sala, Trip to Barbary, iii. As one out of every three Bedouins you meet in the country is mounted on a meek little moke . . . I should put down the number of Arab asses at about one million.
1888. Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, viii. I am regular shook on this old moke, I believe.
1888. J. Runciman, The Chequers, 85. I got to go to market, and we ain't no bloomin' moke.
1889. Illustrated Bits, 13 July. Billy Skipper once came to Ben Bouncer to ask for the loan of his moke.
1894. Sketch, 28 March, 458, col. 2. E wants a barrer an' a moke of 'is hown,' said Nan. E's tired of a barsket.'
2. (common).—A dolt. See quot. 1871.
1871. De Vere, Americanisms, s.v. Moke, possibly a remnant of the obsolete moky, which is related to 'murky,' is used in New York to designate an old fogy or any old person, disrespectfully spoken to.
1871. Galveston News, 4 May. See here, my lively moke, said he, you sling on too much style.
3. (theatrical).—A variety artist who plays on several instruments.
4. (American).—A negro; a snowball (q.v.).
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
1871. De Vere, Americanisms, p. 617. s.v.
Moko, subs. (sportsmen's).—A pheasant
shot by mistake before the
end of the close time. The tail
