"ocker" definition, meaning, and origin

Adjective

Uncultivated; boorish.
- 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...
- I sidled up to a particularly Ocker character on the edge of a group and nervously explained my mission. - 1984, Sandra Jobson, Blokes, page 11:
- ‘Non-erotic male bonding, that’s the thing isn’t it; what our ocker cousins call “mateyness”.’ - 1992Will Self, Cock and Bull, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

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.

A boorish or uncultivated Australian.
- 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...
- In terms of formal ‘experimentation’ Williamson proved to be the most conservative; Don′s Party was the most realist of contemporary texts. Here, an entire tribe of Ockers may be observed within the confines of the...
- For many Australians, the screen persona of the character actor Bill Hunter, who has died of cancer aged 71, was the archetypal "ocker", an uncultivated Australian working man who enjoys beer, "barbies", Aussie rules...