Noun: knacker
| Singular | knacker |
| Plural | knackers |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: toymaker
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A Bachanalian dancing the Spanish Morisco, with knackers at his fingers. [1649, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, The Variety:]
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Plow-wright , Cart-wright, Knacker and Smith [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:]
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Near-synonyms: slaughterer, slaughterman
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After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker. [1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:]
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Near-synonyms: salvager, salvor; scrapper, wrecker, breaker; shipbreaker, car breaker
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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. [2013, Perry Gamsby, Never Be Unsaid, page 136:]
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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! [2014, K. Bannerman, Mark of the Magpie, page 170:]
Nouns inflected like knacker
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse hnak (“saddle”) (whence Icelandic hnakkur (“saddle”)). See: Icelandic Nouns '
hnakkur'.
Verbs referencing "knacker"
Icelandic Nouns
hnakkur.