cokes
See also: Cokes
English
Etymology 2
Compare coax.
Noun
cokes (plural cokeses)
- (obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.
- 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, OCLC 869654321, (please specify the page):
- Because he is an ass, and may be akin to the Cokeses?
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cokes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
French
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