wokel

English

Etymology

Blend of woke +‎ yokel

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwəʊ̯kəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈwəwkəl/
• (General American, AAVE, MTE, MLE) IPA^(key): /ˈwowkəl/

Noun

wokel (plural wokels)

1. (slang) Somebody who speaks for progressive (“woke”) values in spite of missing education.
   • 2022 January 6, “Fear-Submission-Control”, in BDBinc‎^[1]:

     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 December 6, J. C. Lester, Wokeness Is Inverted Fascism Plus Hypocrisy: A Libertarian Perspective‎^[2], page 3:

     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.

   • 2023 April 25, Doug Mortimer, “Snockered with Knockers”, in A Voice for Men‎^[3]:

     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.