ocker

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒkə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Interest on money; usury; increase. dialectal
  2. A boorish or uncultivated Australian. Australia,slang
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To increase (in price); add to. dialectal,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Uncultivated; boorish. Australia,slang
    — 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).

词形变化

ockers plural ockers present,singular,third-person ockering participle,present ockered participle,past ockered past ockers plural more ocker comparative most ocker superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
ockering

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ocker, oker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”). More at oker.
词源 2
From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname.
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