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▪ I. ‖ moko1|ˈmɔkɔ|
[Maori.]
The system of tattooing practised by the Maoris; also, any particular pattern of tattooing.
[1769J. Banks Jrnl. 22 Nov. (1896) 203 The people..were browner..and they had a much larger quantity of amoca or black stains upon their bodies and faces... In this particular, I mean the use of amoca, almost every tribe seems to have a different custom. 1823Cruise Jrnl. Resid. N. Zealand 310 The lines upon the faces and persons of the New Zealanders are universally designated amoco.] 1855R. Taylor Te Ika a Maui 150 The grand ornament of all was the moko or tattoo. 1896Robley (title) Moko; or Maori Tattooing. 1896― Moko 13 Fig. 8. ― Moko signature on a deed. Ibid. 16 He drew for Dr. Traill the mokos of his brother and of his son.
Hence ˈmoko v. trans., to tattoo in the Maori manner. Hence ˈmokoed ppl. a.
1896Robley Moko 183 Mokoed heads in museums and collections. 1902Webster Suppl., Moko, v. t.
▪ II. moko2 slang.|ˈməʊkəʊ|
(See quot.)
1860Hotten's Slang Dict. (ed. 2), Moko, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake in partridge shooting during September, before the pheasant shooting comes in. They pull out their tails and roundly assert they are no pheasants at all, but mokos. |