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dockie

dockie noun: a dockworker.

Noun

dockie (plural dockies)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A dockworker.
    • Longley once told me that in the late 1960s Murphy parked his car down at the docks while he was talking to Dougie Sproule and Putty Nose. Some young dockies who didn't know better broke into his car and stole his nice new golf clubs.1992, Mark Brandon Read, Chopper 2: Hits and Memories, Kilmore, Vic.: Floradale Productions, →ISBN, page 170
    Synonyms:
    docker

Synonyms of dockie

Forms of dockie

pluraldockies

Origin of dockie

From dock + -ie (forming colloquial nouns signifying the person associated with the suffixed noun).

Questions about dockie

What does dockie mean?
Dockie means a dockworker.
What part of speech is dockie?
Dockie is a noun.
What is the plural of dockie?
The plural of dockie is dockies.

Words near dockie in the dictionary

  1. docketing software
  2. docketings
  3. dockets
  4. dockhand
  5. dockhands
  6. dockie
  7. dockies
  8. dockiment
  9. dockiments
  10. docking
  11. docking port

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