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oker¹

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From Middle English oker, okur, okir, okyr, ocker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to add, increase”). Cognate with Scots ocker (“usury”), Icelandic ókur (“usury”), Swedish ocker (“usury”), German Wucher (“usury”), Dutch woeker (“usury”), Old English wōcor (“increase, growth, fruit, usury”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌺𐍂𐍃 (wōkrs, “interest, usury, tax”), Latin augere (“to increase”). More at eke, wax.

noun okers · ocker · occur · ockar · okir · okkir

  1. dialectal Interest on money; usury; increase.

verb okers · okering · okered · ocker · occur

  1. dialectal, transitive To increase (in price); add to.

oker²

noun okers

  1. countable, obsolete, uncountable Obsolete form of ochre

oker³

noun okers

  1. alternative Alternative form of oka (“unit of measurement”). Comparatively speaking, the Greek peasantry are wealthy; — a circumstance which, in most cases, produces contentment in the matrimonial state. I say wealthy, because, even in the interior of the country, a peasant can always gain his drachma per day; out of which he will buy an oker of bread (two po

OKer⁴

adjective

  1. comparative comparative form of OK: more OK

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@misc{oker_2026,
  title = {oker},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}