Definitions
Etymologies
- 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. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There is another meaning of the word 'ocker' which is 'true-blue and down-to-earth Australian', with rural or working class undertones.”
“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.”
“When I was brought up in Queensland, the word 'ocker' was a pejorative term that was used for Asians normally Chinese, Vietnamese, etc.”
“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”
“Fer chrissakes, please please PLEASE do not - under any circumstances - lay on the ocker affectation.”
“Robert Hood's quite ocker "Monstrous Bright Tomorrows" lives up nastily to its title but I wasn't 100% sold on the characterisation.”
“But it won him the love and affection of audiences here, and he's been called Australia's favourite ocker.”
“His career spanned more than 50 years, and he has been called Australia's favourite "ocker", because he often played an archetypal Australian bloke.”
“By jingo, Australia's got a bloody great lingo G'DAY mate, is it too ocker to call a girl a sheila?”
“From the clipped imitations of upper-class English to the broad ocker drawl of the outback north, the Australian accent is recognised the world over.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ocker’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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Stralya
I love a sunburnt country
Some words will just always conjure images of my country for me.snag, footy, holden, bondi, bewdy, fair dinkum, strewth, minda, bruce, mate, dinky di, true blue and 47 more...
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pax australiana
first in, best dr..., chalk and cheese, chuck a sickie, banana bender, sandgroper, croweater, budgie smuggler, bludge, bathers, swimmers, bogan, buck's night and 73 more...
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chelster Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition (1934), lists another sense for this word: "n. Usury; v. to lend, get, or increase, at usury." Jan 28, 2011