dockie
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English
Etymology
From dock + -ie (forming colloquial nouns signifying the person associated with the suffixed noun).
Noun
dockie (plural dockies)
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A dockworker.
- Synonym: docker
- 1992, Mark Brandon Read, Chopper 2: Hits and Memories, Kilmore, Vic.: Floradale Productions, →ISBN, page 170:
- 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.
References
- “dockie n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “dockie, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
