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单词 Okie
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Definition of Okie in English:

Okie

nounPlural Okies, Plural okies ˈəʊkiˈoʊki
US informal
  • 1A native or inhabitant of Oklahoma.

    a grim-faced Okie
    as modifier an extended Okie family
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Okie goes in search for his brother and brings back money.
    • Although my speech classes eliminated most if it, I still have a little Okie accent left.
    • He picks from sunrise to sundown for an old Okie family.
    • It features a soundtrack by fellow Okies The Flaming Lips.
    • It seemed like we were waiting for a ringmaster to come out, but instead, four shaggy-haired Okie boys bounded on stage and launched into their riffy emo rock.
    • When I was 12 in the early 1960s, my Okie father bought me a bottle of cherry vodka, which I could drink when I wanted.
    • A touring singer of the ‘country crooning style’, her cheery Okie songs - covered in the spit and hiss of old 78s - heighten the play's avant-weird air.
    • The mind reels and the stomach churns along to this blue-eyed Okie funk-rock.
    • But background never counts for much in pop music - remember the young Dylan's acquired Okie accent?
    • Dean doesn't talk to the women and they return to the Okie house where the daughter is afraid of Dean.
    • Janet, the Okie woman, breaks a Dizzy Gillespie record over Dean's head.
    1. 1.1derogatory, historical A migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave a farm during the depression of the 1930s.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The depictions of Okies as too stupid to scratch themselves show Steinbeck up for the product of an affluent middle class Coast family that he was.
      • We can't let these Okies get out of hand.
      • They come to a blockade where they are kept from entering a town that does not want any ‘goddamn Okies.’
      • I love that idea of an adult influence on kids and also the idea that those children, the Okies, at that time were considered un-teachable.
      • They wanted to keep the Okies out of their stores and out of their schools.

Rhymes

chokey, croaky, folkie, folky, hokey, hokey-cokey, hoki, jokey, karaoke, Loki, okey-dokey, pokey, poky, smoky, trochee
 
 

Definition of Okie in US English:

Okie

nounˈōkēˈoʊki
US informal
  • 1A native or inhabitant of Oklahoma.

    a grim-faced Okie
    as modifier an extended Okie family
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It seemed like we were waiting for a ringmaster to come out, but instead, four shaggy-haired Okie boys bounded on stage and launched into their riffy emo rock.
    • Although my speech classes eliminated most if it, I still have a little Okie accent left.
    • But background never counts for much in pop music - remember the young Dylan's acquired Okie accent?
    • He picks from sunrise to sundown for an old Okie family.
    • It features a soundtrack by fellow Okies The Flaming Lips.
    • When I was 12 in the early 1960s, my Okie father bought me a bottle of cherry vodka, which I could drink when I wanted.
    • Dean doesn't talk to the women and they return to the Okie house where the daughter is afraid of Dean.
    • The mind reels and the stomach churns along to this blue-eyed Okie funk-rock.
    • A touring singer of the ‘country crooning style’, her cheery Okie songs - covered in the spit and hiss of old 78s - heighten the play's avant-weird air.
    • The Okie goes in search for his brother and brings back money.
    • Janet, the Okie woman, breaks a Dizzy Gillespie record over Dean's head.
    1. 1.1historical, derogatory A migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave during the Depression of the 1930s.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They come to a blockade where they are kept from entering a town that does not want any ‘goddamn Okies.’
      • The depictions of Okies as too stupid to scratch themselves show Steinbeck up for the product of an affluent middle class Coast family that he was.
      • We can't let these Okies get out of hand.
      • They wanted to keep the Okies out of their stores and out of their schools.
      • I love that idea of an adult influence on kids and also the idea that those children, the Okies, at that time were considered un-teachable.
 
 
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