knacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: năkə
ipa: /ˈnakə/
enpr: năkər
ipa: /ˈnækɚ/
rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
Forms: form: knackers
Etymology: From Old Norse hnak (“saddle”) (whence Icelandic hnakkur (“saddle”)).
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: toymaker
glosses: One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
examples: text: A Bachanalian dancing the Spanish Morisco, with knackers at his fingers.
ref: 1649, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, The Variety:
synonyms: clapper
glosses: One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand.
examples: text: Plow-wright , Cart-wright, Knacker and Smith
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: A harnessmaker or saddlemaker; their place of business (e.g., saddlery).
examples: text: Near-synonyms: slaughterer, slaughterman
text: After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
examples: Near-synonyms: salvager, salvor; scrapper, wrecker, breaker; shipbreaker, car breaker
glosses: One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
glosses: An itinerant person, especially one of Irish Traveller heritage.
synonyms: word: dobber
word: scobe
word: adlay
word: bam
word: Barry boy
word: bazza
word: benny
word: bogan
word: bopper
word: brush
word: charva
word: charver
word: chav
word: dobber
word: dresser
word: dumbo
word: eshay
word: gazza
word: gippo
word: herbert
word: hood rat
word: kev
word: knacker
word: mev
word: ned
word: nob
word: ocker
word: pikey
word: pleb
word: poor white trash
word: prole
word: puffy
word: radgie
word: redneck
word: rudeboy
word: rudie
word: scally
word: scanger
word: schemie
word: scobe
word: scoundrel
word: scratter
word: scrote
word: scrub
word: scrubber
word: scuffer
word: scumbag
word: scunner
word: scutter
word: sham
word: skanger
word: skeet
word: smackhead
word: smick
word: snoopy
word: spide
word: steek
word: stig
word: sweeper
word: thug
word: thugette
word: townie
word: trailer trash
word: trev
word: vic
word: Westie
word: white trash
word: wigger
word: yarco
word: yob
word: yobbo
glosses: A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger, or similar.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013, Perry Gamsby, Never Be Unsaid, page 136:
glosses: A testicle.
examples: text: Believe me, you can get an old knacker for cheap at the glue yard, but it won't carry you as far as a thoroughbred!
ref: 2014, K. Bannerman, Mark of the Magpie, page 170:
glosses: An old, worn-out horse.
glosses: A collier's horse.
Derived terms: high-jimmy-knacker
knacker's yard
Knackerville