ocker

Meanings

Noun

• Interest on money; usury; increase.
• A boorish or uncultivated Australian.

Verb

• To increase (in price); add to.

Adjective

• Pertaining to an ocker.

Origin

• From Middle English ocker, oker, from Old Norse ókr ("usury"), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz ("progeny, earnings, profit"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- ("to add, increase"). More at oker.
• From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname.