adj
Meaning 1
Uncultivated; boorish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, slang
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Standard Lemma guide
ocker
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈɒkə/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɒkə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: AA1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Nickname for Oscar
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Interest on money; usury; increase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 4
A boorish or uncultivated Australian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, slang
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noun
Meaning 5
Alternative form of ocker (a boorish or uncultivated Australian)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, alt-of, alternative, slang
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verb
Meaning 6
To increase (in price); add to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, transitive
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History
Etymology
From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname.
From Middle English ocker, oker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”). More at oker.
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