22 December 2014

ocker

[ok-er]

noun
1. an uncultured Australian male.
2. an uncouth, offensive male chauvinist.
adjective
3. of or relating to such a person.
4. typically Australian.

Origin
1960s; after Ocker, a character in an Australian television series

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Today’s aphorism

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.

– Pauline Phillips (Abigail Van Buren), created the ‘Dear Abby’ advice column in 1956.

On this day

22 December 1936 – Italy sends thousands of troops to Spain to support the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War who were opposed to the democratically elected left-wing ‘Popular Front’ government which comprised of Trotskyists, communists and other left-wing groups.