Word of the Day: NOKES

ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin

EXAMPLE
“…Foster could make an Irish Lord a Nokes,
And Betty Morris had her City Cokes.
A Woman’s nere so ruin’d, but she can
Be still reveng’d on her Undoer Man:
How lost so e’re, she’ll find some Lover more
A lewd abandon’d Fool, then she’s a Whore…”

From: Artemisa to Cloe.
A letter from a lady in the tovvn to a lady in the country; concerning the loves of the tovvn.
John Wilmot Rochester, 1679