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onkus

onkus adjective: inferior; unpleasant; unacceptably bad.

Adjective

onkus (comparative more onkus, superlative most onkus)

  1. (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
  2. (New Zealand, obsolete, rare, slang) Good; acceptable; okay.

onkus meaning in Urdu

onkus in Urdu

نامرغوب, الٹا پلٹا

Forms of onkus

comparativemore onkus
superlativemost onkus

Origin of onkus

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

Questions about onkus

What does onkus mean?
Onkus means inferior; unpleasant; unacceptably bad.
What is onkus in Urdu?
Onkus in Urdu is نامرغوب, الٹا پلٹا. See Onkus meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is onkus?
Onkus is an adjective.

Words near onkus in the dictionary

  1. Onkens
  2. onkilonite
  3. Onko
  4. onkoi
  5. onkos
  6. onkus
  7. onlaid
  8. onland
  9. onlap
  10. onlapped
  11. onlapping

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