jamoke

Etymology
Appeared at the end of the 19th century as a term for coffee, a.

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, , and the second syllable is reminiscent of. Also spelled, , and , the term as used for an idiot has also been suggested to derive from a dialectal Italian (Neapolitan or Sicilian) word giamope.

In the 1960s it also began to be used as slang for male genitalia.

This term may be the origin of and ; see those entries for more.

Noun

 * 1)  Coffee.
 * 2) * 1957, Samuel Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Illinois 2002), page 71:
 * 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?”
 * 1)  A stupid person, fool.
 * 2)  The penis.
 * 1)  The penis.
 * 1)  The penis.
 * 1)  The penis.