oikish

Even the oikish TV chef Jamie Oliver has made that connection.

Much of Big Brother's appeal – particularly as it degenerated into a platform for oikish wannabes – was negative, based on voyeurism or Schadenfreude.

Snobbery was hard to conquer because it worked in both directions: John Lennon’s mother was worried about her son’s voice being contaminated by the oikish tones of Paul McCartney.

Or will those twin sights take their place in a new mythology of a slightly yobbish, slightly oikish country that will become part of what Rigal might call our collective memory?

Ferdinand and Suárez, both products of broken homes, were perhaps too oikish to know how a chap behaves; Evra, the polyglot son of a diplomat, knew the code and offered his hand.

Kenneth Grahame's classic is sometimes recast as an ecological morality fable, but Tuckett plays the story straight: three furry fogeys defending their arcadia from oikish weasels and the combustion engine.

On my way out of the theatre, I popped into the toilet to find oikish young men weeing in the Criterion sinks - and revelling in the sick and racist elements of show.

The one character led by unruly passion - Tim's dippy sister Kit-Kat, whose boyfriend is a faintly oikish piece of bad news in a leather jacket - becomes an alcoholic, has a car crash and is only redeemed by a jolly posh boy in a V-neck sweater.