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knocker
English
Etymology
knock +? -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?k?(r)
Noun
knocker (plural knockers)
- A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
- A person who knocks.
- 1963, Patrick Anderson, The Character Ball: Chapters of Autobiography (page 220)
- He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.
- 1963, Patrick Anderson, The Character Ball: Chapters of Autobiography (page 220)
- A critic; one who disparages.
- (informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts.
- (especially Cardigan, in South Wales, archaic) A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking. [18th to 19th c.]
- (pinball) A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
- 1963, Harper's magazine (volume 226)
- A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress […]
- 1963, Harper's magazine (volume 226)
- (dated, slang) A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
- A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
- (geology) A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
- (slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager.
- 2004, Carl Chinn, Better Betting with a Decent Feller (page 48)
- To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]
- 2004, Carl Chinn, Better Betting with a Decent Feller (page 48)
Synonyms
- (a woman's breasts): See also Thesaurus:breasts
Derived terms
Translations
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knucker
English
Etymology
From Old English nicor (“water monster; hippopotamus”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?k?(?)
Noun
knucker (plural knuckers)
- (Britain, dialect) A kind of water dragon, said to live in knuckerholes in Sussex, England.
Further reading
- knucker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
knucker From the web:
- what meaning knucker
- what does a knucker mean
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