oik

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
An open-ended investment company, or OEIC (pronounced 'oik'), is a modern and more flexible version of a unit trust.

View all »
Examples (42)

  • She didn't understand how it happened, how he did it, but the instant his arms closed around her, the instant his lips touched hers, the field oik which they stood changed, shifted She'd started her day distantly hurt, reminding herself his attitude to her was no more than she'd expected. —  Stephanie Laurens - A Fine Passion
  • Mr Garrett, a former legal adviser to the Sensible Sentencing Trust, said the concerns were not Mr Finlayson's personally but those of "some oik in Crown Law". —  Gates of Vienna
  • But I suspect it wasn't just the odd rowdy customer that you'd have considered a "drunken oik". —  Jeffrey's Beer Blog
  • An open-ended investment company, or OEIC (pronounced 'oik'), is a modern and more flexible version of a unit trust. —  MoneyWeek RSS - All
  • How dare this Northern oik appropriate genuine female emotions and trick us into being moved by Lily's plight? —  Blog of a Bookslut
More examples »
 

Tags

oik hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 66 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

respondent · flirt · fling · narcotics · flame

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

britney · bunda · settii · aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile · an sionnach i gcraiceann na caorach