Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
ocher . - noun See
oker .
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- noun
Interest onmoney ;usury ;increase . - verb transitive To
increase (in price);add to. - noun slang, Australia A
boorish oruncultivated Australian. - adjective Pertaining to an ocker.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When I was brought up in Queensland, the word 'ocker' was a pejorative term that was used for Asians normally Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.
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When I was brought up in Queensland, the word 'ocker' was a pejorative term that was used for Asians normally Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.
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The scholarly and comprehensive but under-used Australian National Dictionary AND; Oxford, 1988 Ockersford? gives three related senses for "ocker", with copious citation of sources.
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There is another meaning of the word 'ocker' which is 'true-blue and down-to-earth Australian', with rural or working class undertones.
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An unfortunate side-effect is that it created an image of Australia as a home of genteel period pieces - much preferable to many people as a representation of the country than the "ocker" comedies like
DVD Times 2010
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An unfortunate side-effect is that it created an image of Australia as a home of genteel period pieces - much preferable to many people as a representation of the country than the "ocker" comedies like
DVD Times 2010
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Robert Hood's quite ocker "Monstrous Bright Tomorrows" lives up nastily to its title but I wasn't 100% sold on the characterisation.
Kittehs update editormum 2007
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Fer chrissakes, please please PLEASE do not - under any circumstances - lay on the ocker affectation.
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But it won him the love and affection of audiences here, and he's been called Australia's favourite ocker.
BBC News - Home 2011
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His career spanned more than 50 years, and he has been called Australia's favourite "ocker", because he often played an archetypal Australian bloke.
BBC News - Home 2011
chelster commented on the word ocker
Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition (1934), lists another sense for this word: "n. Usury; v. to lend, get, or increase, at usury."
January 28, 2011