Etymology

onkus

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Today it means: Inferior; unpleasant; unacceptably bad. Full definition →

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The story

Unknown. Australian from 1903, New Zealand from 1909. Compare slightly earlier onky.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.