different between beatnik vs knacker

English

Etymology

Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in 1958. From beat (generation) + cutesy or ironic use of the Russian suffix -??? (-nik). This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite. Compare jazznik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?tn?k/

Noun

beatnik (plural beatniks)

1. A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and therewith is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior
2. A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.

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See also

• Baghdad by the Bay (also coined by Herb Caen)
• hepcat
• hippie, hippy
• jazznik
• peacenik

References

Finnish

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?tnik/, [?bi?t?nik]
• IPA^(key): /?bi?tnik?i/, [?bi?t?nik?i]

Noun

beatnik

1. beatnik

Usage notes

Partitive plural is commonly spelled with double-k as beatnikkejä, which may be considered erroneous.

Declension

French

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Noun

beatnik m or f (plural beatniks)

1. beatnik

Portuguese

Etymology

From English beatnik.

Noun

beatnik m, f (plural beatniks)

1. beatnik (person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s)

English

Etymology

From Old Norse hnak (“saddle”) (whence Icelandic hnakkur (“saddle”)), hur (“horse”) — the profession of saddlemaker.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?k?, IPA^(key): /?nak?/
• (General American) enPR: n?k?r, IPA^(key): /?næk?/
• Rhymes: -æk?(r)
• Hyphenation: knack?er

Noun

knacker (plural knackers)

1. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
2. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

3. A harness maker.
4. One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Ch. XXII, Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition, pg. 117-118,

     After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker.

5. One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
6. (Ireland, Britain, offensive) A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.
7. (Ireland, Northern English, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe.
8. (Britain, slang, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
   • 2013, Perry Gamsby, Never Be Unsaid (page 136)

     He looked like someone had put a 9mm full metal jacket round through his left scrotum. He even had his mouth open in some parody of a soundless scream, much as I imagined I would do if someone shot my left knacker off.

9. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A collier's horse.

Derived terms

• knacker's yard

Translations

Verb

knacker (third-person singular simple present knackers, present participle knackering, simple past and past participle knackered)

1. (British slang) To tire out, exhaust.

   Carrying that giant statue up those stairs knackered me out

2. (British slang) To reprimand.

   Digital giants Dstv and Vision Group’s Bukedde Television didn’t go untouched with the former lashed for laxities in re-connection especially in cases where a subscriber renewed their subscription by Mobile Money, while the latter got knackered for promoting witchcraft and witch doctors. ( http://trumpetnews.co.ug/2017/03/16/1615/ )

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