Talk:moko

Possible missing sense: pheasant shot by mistake

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) has this interesting word (which I couldn't easily cite from Google Books):

Moko, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake during September, before the pheasant-shooting comes in. They pull out their tails, and roundly assert that they are no pheasants at all, but mokos.

Equinox ◑ 22:19, 5 January 2021 (UTC)