Ocker
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Interest on money; usury; increase. dialectal
- 2 A boorish or uncultivated Australian. Australia, slang
"But Willesee was finding that entertaining ockers were in short supply. Ockers who could fart and belch and drop their trousers were plentiful. There was no shortage of ockers who could sing bawdy songs and abuse Poms and chunder on cue."
- 3 Alternative form of ocker (a boorish or uncultivated Australian) Australia, alt-of, alternative, slang
- 1 To increase (in price); add to. dialectal, transitive
- 1 Uncultivated; boorish. Australia, slang
"page 44: What a contrast was Jack Hibberd's next exercise—from highbrow obscurantism to a show that was to spray the audiences of a score of theatres with the ockerest of ocker humour and set them going off to tell their friends. It was a play destined to set Jack Hibberd on the road to legendary popularity and financial wealth (in playwright terms, anyway)."
- 1 Nickname for Oscar
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More examples"But Willesee was finding that entertaining ockers were in short supply. Ockers who could fart and belch and drop their trousers were plentiful. There was no shortage of ockers who could sing bawdy songs and abuse Poms and chunder on cue."
Etymology
From Middle English ocker, oker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to add, increase”). More at oker.
From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname.
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