jamoke
/d͡ʒəˈməʊk/
jamoke noun: coffee.
Noun
jamoke (countable and uncountable, plural jamokes)
- Coffee.
- The chartroom door popped open before the startled admirals in the cockpit, and the beaming face of the boat's cook appeared to offer the hospitality of his craft, thus: “Would yer Majesty like a cuppa jamoke?”1957, Samuel Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Illinois 2002), page 71
- A stupid person, fool.
- You and I both know that this is not enough money for the President and it's too damn much for some jamoke in the Bronx.2004, Dan Johnson, The Molotov Box, Xlibris, page 24
- “You ever see the movie Spotlight?” “About the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the sexual abuse coverup in the Catholic Church?” “Yeah, exactly.” “No.” “Oh. Well, in that I played Ben Bradlee, Jr. And that character begins with the accent, because the real Bradlee is from Boston. But he's an...2023 August 10, Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil, “Urgent Care” (12:00 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 6, spoken by John Slattery (John Slattery)
- The penis.
- Synonyms:
- anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad
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Forms of jamoke
| plural | jamokes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | jamoch |
| alternative form | jamocha |
| alternative form | jamoka |
| alternative form | jomoke |
Origin of jamoke
Appeared at the end of the 19th century as a term for coffee, a blend of java + mocha. By the 1920s or 1940s jamoke was also attested in the sense of "fool, idiot", perhaps suggesting they lacked mental abilities beyond that of a cup of coffee, or perhaps an unrelated word; the first syllable is reminiscent of jaboney, jiboney, and the second syllable is reminiscent of moke. Also spelled jamook, giamoke, and giamope, the term as used for an idiot has also been suggested to derive from a dialectal Italian (Neapolitan or Sicilian) word giamope. This dialect has produced other words with elided final vowels in American and Australian diaspora speech, such as gabagool. In the 1960s it also began to be used as slang for male genitalia. This term may be the origin of cup of joe and joe; see those entries for more.
Words that rhyme with jamoke
Questions about jamoke
- What does jamoke mean?
- Jamoke means coffee.
- What part of speech is jamoke?
- Jamoke is a noun.
- How do you pronounce jamoke?
- Jamoke is pronounced /d͡ʒəˈməʊk/.
- What is the plural of jamoke?
- The plural of jamoke is jamokes.
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