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Macquarie Dictionary:

ockerish, adjective. ockerism, noun.

/'okuh/.  Colloquial

noun

1.  the archetypal uncultivated Australian worker.

2. a boorish, uncouth, chauvinistic Australian.

adjective

3. of or relating to an ocker.

4. distinctively Australian:  an ocker sense of humour.

Also, okker.

[variant of Oscar, especially the character in the television series The Mavis Bramston Show (1965-1968) played by Barry Creyton, born 1939]

 

 

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