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词组 oik
释义 oik
noun
someone considered to be a social inferior; a disagreeable youth UK, 1925
Originally a public school coinage used to categorise status: “a townee”; then generalised as “working-class”; also used within that circle as general abuse for an unpopular fellow pupil or someone from a rival school. Generated from HOICK (to hawk and spit).
  • RODDY [an officer]: What do I not like about the Army? Mmmm. Well ... the, ah, oiks ... soldiers, they’re a pretty moderate bunch of specimens[.] — Mike Stott, Soldiers Talking, Cleanly, 1978
  • Having a dozen sentimental oiks pontificatiing on every decision was quite clearly out of the question[.] — John King, White Trash, p. 188, 2001
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