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Woman with a stick (called Stick) [Muse of Rich people} Started conversation Aug 21, 2001
I heard that Prince Edward and Sophie (Countess or Duchess or whatever) are on strike because they only get £141,000 a year to open things etc.
I reckon my husband and I could do that - I don't normally agree with strike-breaking but I could make an exception here.
C.V. Good at pratting about, having free dinners and opening things. Can shake hands with oiks.
Where do I apply?
Oik
Sea Change Posted Aug 25, 2001
I have never heard the word 'oik' outside of a comic strip called "Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist". I thought it was just a word invented by Diane DiMassa to describe someone who deserved to get sliced in half by a chainsaw, castrated, or penetrated by an antitank missile launcher. Or worse.
Please Ms Stick, what does 'oik' actually mean?
Oik
Woman with a stick (called Stick) [Muse of Rich people} Posted Aug 26, 2001
Riff-raff, disreputable member of the public, working class, scruffy person etc. or in the case of the royal family anyone without aristocratic blood - ie. me and (probably) you.
Does this help 
Oik
Sea Change Posted Sep 9, 2001
If one is well dressed, never overtly pays for anything, and can fake a plummy accent, is one an oik of lesser degree, is one different enough in kind to be called 'parvenu' or 'new money'?
another palace job
Sea Change Posted Apr 21, 2006
Wow, a revived 5 year-old conversation! This is what I get for never unsubscribing from anything.
Oikage is hereditary position, or aristocracy is, or both?
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