wokel

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UK/ˈwəʊ̯kəl/British, Southern, Standard/ˈwəwkəl//ˈwowkəl/

noun

An uneducated person who expresses progressive (“woke”) values.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounwokel (plural wokels)

plural wokels

  1. slangAn uneducated person who expresses progressive (“woke”) values.

    By analogy with yokels, the ignorance and naivety of woke fascists makes them “wokels”. Then why are so many academics woke? Surely, they must be the opposite of wokels.

    2022 June 12, J. C. Lester, Wokeness Is Inverted Fascism Plus Hypocrisy: A Libertarian Perspective, page 3
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    The sum total of the mechanisms in the covid psyop, why it works. Last year was another ridiculous parade of alternating fear + pseudoscience in the media. Just like the previous year only the lies were getting even more …unbaalievable. Not too bizarre though it would seem for the devout religious branch of Covidian wokels, the fear kept working on them.

    2022 January 6, “Fear-Submission-Control”, in BDBinc

    On the other hand, I can already hear critics bellowing that giving men free booze promotes patriarchy rather than subverts it. Such a program would be a tough sell to the local wokels.

    2023 April 25, Doug Mortimer, “Snockered with Knockers”, in A Voice for Men

Origin

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APA

wokel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wokel

MLA

“wokel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wokel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wokel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wokel.

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