knocker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English knock
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English knocker
From knock + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: knockers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
pos: noun
examples: Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used.
His tongue became a staircase, his uvula the knocker / Of an ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future
gloss: A person who knocks.
pos: noun
examples: He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.
gloss: A critic; one who disparages.
pos: noun
examples: "I try to give everybody credit," declared the old man. "I am not a knocker. I am not too good for this world."
gloss: A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
gloss: A person's breast, especially if large.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
slang
gloss: A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
pos: noun
examples: A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress[…]
gloss: A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
pos: noun
gloss: A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
pos: noun
gloss: One who defaults on payment of a wager.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]
gloss: A gun.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Lay down on that 'Tussin, I think I'ma snooze (Like, like what?)
We keep knockers like this shit essential
.22 long rifles, these bullets like pencils
Homicide, bodies drop when we bend through
Last opper we caught had to pop 'em, shouldn't've left out his crib without knockers
Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)
If we see the'Ds, bitch, move proper
gloss: An undercover policeman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The knockers around better do what I say so
Derived words: apple-knocker
black as Newgate's knocker
bommy knocker
cock knocker
cock-knocker
doorknocker
door knocker
fartknocker
fart knocker
fart-knocker
knockerless
knockers
knocker-up
knocker up
knocker-upper
Newgate knocker
nigger knocker
nigger-knocker
on the knocker
pork knocker
pork-knocker
ring knocker
saggar maker's bottom knocker
slobber knocker
slobber-knocker
snow knocker
tin knocker
tommyknocker
up to the knocker
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: panettelija
lang: Russian
word: приди́ра
roman: pridíra
lang: Russian
word: критика́н
roman: kritikán
lang: Russian
word: критика́нка
roman: kritikánka