(New Zealand) A traditional Maoritattoo(image made in the skin), traditionally done withchisels; also, such an image used as a personal sign or signature.[from 19th c.]
1983,Keri Hulme,The Bone People, Penguin, published1986, page373:
No calligraphist could have drawn themoko so perfectly in the short time the fingers execute it.
Svarmas la kritikoj kaj lamokoj al la supozata strangeco de la esperantistoj, eĉ, kio estas des pli surpriza, fare de la esperantistoj mem.
The criticisms and themockeries swarm towards the presumed strangeness of the esperantists, even, as is all the more surprising, from the esperantists themselves.
1982, Peter G. Forster,The Esperanto Movement, Walter de Gruyter,→ISBN, page381:
Kaj nin ne timigas la noktaj fantomoj / Nek batoj de l'sorto, nekmokoj de l'homoj / Ĉar klara kaj rekta kaj tre difinita / Ĝi estas, la voj' elektita.
And we are not frightened by the nocturnal phantoms / Nor the beatings of fate, nor themockery of humans / For clear, straight and well-defined / Is the chosen route.
^Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “mokomoko”, inHawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN, page251
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