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jamoke

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
22
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/d͡ʒəˈməʊk/

Definition of jamoke

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (slang, uncountable)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?””
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noun

  1. (slang, uncountable)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?””
  2. (countable, slang)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.”
  3. (countable, slang)The penis.

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Etymology

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…

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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.

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