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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/ )

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old English nicor (“water monster; hippopotamus”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

knucker (plural knuckers)

1. (Britain, dialect) A kind of water dragon, said to live in knuckerholes in Sussex, England.

Further reading

• knucker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia