Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like coke; porous in structure from partial fusion and escape of volatile matter: said of the residue from charring certain kinds of bituminous coal.
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- adjective Resembling or containing
coke .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It ud plase me imagenation to prache among corrils an 'coky-nuts an' naked crachurs.
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"This livin 'on coky-nuts and bread-fruits intirely is bad for the stomich, Heller," he observed.
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An 'now, Heller, do tell these poor, benighted, lazy loons that I must have me coky-nuts fresh, an' as great a variety av fish as can be procured in these wathers.
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Let us hope that the coky-nuts will agree wid us, an 'that the natives won't urge upon us the blissins av martyrdom.
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"These here's coky-nuts, as you knows very well; so let's pick out a good tree, and up you goes and gets some and throws 'em down."
Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Well sir, of course I don't mean real English cabbage stumps and potato parings, same as we has at home, but what answers for 'em here, and coky-nut huxes and shells, and banana rinds, and a nasty bad smelling kind o 'fruit as they calls doorings."
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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Young tom (complete tool and coky little T£$t), gets caught on a CDT (class A).
Army Rumour Service 2009
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The chap that preshumes to bring me an owld coky-nut I'll curse his basket an 'his shtore. "
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"If so be as you've got the coky-nuts, let's have 'em, for I'd like a go at one
Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870
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