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- adjective Like an
oik ;yobbish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since then, there have been mathematical punk bands and oikish progsters, but rarely has there been an outfit such as White Denim, who combine the drive of a hardcore band with sinuous virtuosity and cavalier genre-hopping.
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An oikish young man from the estate wandered past and flicked a rude gesture.
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An oikish young man from the estate wandered past and flicked a rude gesture.
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An oikish young man from the estate wandered past and flicked a rude gesture.
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Pretty soon the children of Northern Ireland will be as uneducated and oikish as their English counterparts.
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My children are English but they're not remotely uneducated or oikish nor are any of the many others I meet.
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Rather, we were worried that they were becoming too much like oikish, alienated white youth.
Home news 2007
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Hence 'oikish a., unpleasant, crude; 'oickman see quot.
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Too often, he says, they find themselves caricatured as oikish football fans who have somehow wandered into the wrong venue.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Too often, he says, they find themselves caricatured as oikish football fans who have somehow wandered into the wrong venue.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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