Knacker

/ˈnakə/ · noun

Meaning

One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc..

Definitions by Sense

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.
3. (archaic) A harnessmaker or saddlemaker; their place of business (e.g., saddlery).
4. One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
5. One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
6. (Ireland, British, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Irish Traveller heritage.
7. (Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger, or similar.
8. (UK, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: toymaker

A Bachanalian dancing the Spanish Morisco, with knackers at his fingers.

Plow-wright , Cart-wright, Knacker and Smith

Near-synonyms: slaughterer, slaughterman

After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker.

Near-synonyms: salvager, salvor; scrapper, wrecker, breaker; shipbreaker, car breaker

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.

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!

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Word Forms

• knackers
• knackering
• knackered

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