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ocker¹
- /ˈɒkə/ UK
Rhymes with -ɒkə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English ocker, oker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”). More at oker.
noun ockers
- Interest on money; usury; increase.
verb ockers · ockering · ockered
- To increase (in price); add to.
ocker²
- /ˈɒkə/ UK
Rhymes with -ɒkə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname.
noun ockers
- A boorish or uncultivated Australian. 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.
adjective more ocker · most ocker
- Uncultivated; boorish. 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 po
Ocker³
proper noun
- Nickname for Oscar
noun Ockers
- Alternative form of ocker (a boorish or uncultivated Australian)
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title = {ocker},
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