Money vs Ocker - What's the difference?
money | ocker |
A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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, title= A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth.
An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
(as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.
(slang, Australia) A boorish or uncultivated Australian.
* 1987 , James Oram, Hogan: The Story of a Son of Oz ,
* 1990 , , Volume 49, University of Melbourne,
* 2011 May 23, Ronald Bergan, The Guardian ,
Pertaining to an ocker.
* 1992 , Will Self, Cock and Bull :
* 2007 , Phillip William Hughes, Opening Doors to the Future: Stories of Prominent Australians and the Influence of Teachers ,
* 2008 , Robert Crawford, But Wait, There's More!: A History of Australian Advertising, 1900-2000 ,
* 2008 , David P. Reiter, Primary Instinct ,
* 2011 January 25, Emily Portell, (Melbourne),
As nouns the difference between money and ocker
is that money is a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply while ocker is interest on money; usury; increase or ocker can be (slang|australia) a boorish or uncultivated australian.As a verb ocker is
to increase (in price); add to.As a adjective ocker is
pertaining to an ocker.money
English
(money)Noun
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Synonyms
* beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga * (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value) * (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value) * (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins) * See alsoDerived terms
* bad money * bank money * bar money * black money * blood money * bullet money * call money * cash money * caution money * checkbook money * coat money * conduct money * conscience money * cost of money * credit money * current money * deposit money * dirty money * dispatch money * door money * earnest money * easy money * even money * fiat money * folding money * foreign money * front money * full-bodied money * fun money * funny money * get one's money's worth * gun money * hard money * head money * hot money * house money * hush money * if money * in the money * key money * lawful money * mad money * maundy money * money belt * money broker * money changer * money changing * money chest * money clip * money cowrie * money crop * money doesn't grow on trees * money economy * money illusion * money laundering * moneymaker * money makes the world go round * money market * money of account * money order * money pit * money plant * money rate * money scrivener * money supply * money spider * money spinner * money's worth * Monopoly money * near-money * necessity money * neutral money * new money * old money * paper money * pin money * plastic money * plate money * play money * pocket money * power of money * price of money * prize money * protection money * push money * ready money * rent money * representative money * run for one's money * seed money * ship money * side money * silly money * sin money * sit down money * smart money * spending money * sound money * standard money * till money * time money * time is money * token money * tribute money * trophy money * up-front money * value for moneyStatistics
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ocker, oker, from (etyl) . More at (l).Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 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.Noun
(en noun)page 69,
- 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.
page 139,
- 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 suburban sprawl.
- 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 football and V8 supercars.
Adjective
(en adjective)- ‘Non-erotic male bonding, that’s the thing isn’t it; what our ocker cousins call “mateyness”.’
page 133,
- In addition to these specialist skills he showed his individuality at school where he preferred karate to rugby and when his more ocker classmates went to celebrate in pubs he went with a friend to Chinese restaurants.
page 179,
- Singo?s subsequent campaigns became more creative, developing a louder, brasher, and decidedly more ocker image in the process.
page 93,
- His name is Bob Snapes, and you don?t get any more ocker than him.
- Melbourne surf shop Mordy Surf triggered outrage after posting the YouTube clip, in which an ocker man says he is "gonna get a glass and smash it on some poof", on its website.
References
* The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket , ed. Cashman, Franks, Maxwell, Stoddart, Weaver and Webster, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-553575-8 p.562 *Australian word 'Ocker'— Australian words — Australian National Dictionary Centre — ANU.