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Thread #124660   Message #2763154
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
09-Nov-09 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pronunciation of ph, th, sh words
Subject: RE: BS: Pronunciation of ph, th, sh words
Oick, oik, hoick, oickman, a deprecatory schoolboy term for a student at another school, by extension an obnoxious person, a labourer or other low-class individual, a 'clot,' doesn't appear in print before 1925 (Oxford English Dictionary).
Dict. Bootham Slang 1925.