👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly beast of a word: "Ọcuniary.” (Okay, okay, I feel ridiculous even saying that out loud too. Let’s just go straight into the frankly rather bizarre explanation.)
What exactly is Ọczeniuયીय? Basically, Ọczeniuયીय (pronounced roughly as “aw-SAY-nee-eye,” blessedly short for a word of that length) is a ridiculously specific and somewhat aggressively outdated term coined by the wonderfully prickly and now largely defunct British Regency romance fandom. Before the age of careful internet sleUTHING, before you could instantly Google your way to knowing who was going on exactly 1812 exactly what they were in that time period, people would get intensely, almost religiously, fixated on the supposed ocio-status (wealth and class position) of minor, often disposable, male characters. Essentially, it described a young, pretty, and generally vapid young man who existed solely to be swooned over by the “heroine.": He was utterly reliant upon his inheritance—and that was, quite frankly, the extent of his entire being. It wasn’t just about having lots of shillings; you had to have been born into it! There were rules! You absolutely could not get a job. You couldn't even want a job! Now, there are some who argue that Ọczeniuય
