onkus

adj — 2 senses

adj

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

Australia, New Zealand, Dated, Slang Inferior; unpleasant; unacceptably bad.

The soup was crook. It was onkus. A yellow-bellied platypus couldn′t drink it […]1981, Herman Charles Bosman, The Collected Works of Herman Charles Bosman, page 101:

New Zealand, Obsolete, Rare, Slang Good; acceptable; okay.

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