ocker
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Is ocker a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of ocker?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.dialectal
verb (English)
1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To increase (in price); add to.dialectaltransitive
noun (English)
1. (slang, Australia) A boorish or uncultivated Australian.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."; "In terms of formal ‘experimentation’ Williamson proved to be the most conservative; Don′s Party was the most realist of contemporary texts. Here, an entire tribe of Ockers may be observed within the confines of the suburban sprawl."; "For many Australians, the screen persona of the character actor Bill Hunter, who has died of cancer aged 71, was the archetypal "ocker", an uncultivated Australian working man who enjoys beer, "barbies", Aussie rules football and V8 supercars."Australiaslang
adj (English)
1. (slang, Australia) Uncultivated; boorish.Examples: "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)."; "I sidled up to a particularly Ocker character on the edge of a group and nervously explained my mission."; "‘Non-erotic male bonding, that’s the thing isn’t it; what our ocker cousins call “mateyness”.’"Australiaslang
noun (English)
1. (Australia, slang) Alternative form of ocker (a boorish or uncultivated Australian)Australiaalt-ofalternativeslang
Definition source: Wiktionary