knocker

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɒk.ə/|[ˈnɒk.ə]    美 /ˈnɔk.ə/|[ˈnɔk.ə] ~ [ˈnɔk.ɐ̝]|/ˈnɑk.ɚ/|[ˈnɑk.ɚ] ~ [ˈnɑk.ɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
    — Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used.
  2. A person who knocks.
    — He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.
  3. A critic; one who disparages.
    — "I try to give everybody credit," declared the old man. "I am not a knocker. I am not too good for this world."
  4. A person who knocks (denigrates) something. derogatory,informal
  5. A person's breast, especially if large. plural-normally,slang
  6. A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking. archaic
  7. A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
    — A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress[…]
  8. A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner. dated,slang
  9. A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
  10. A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
  11. One who defaults on payment of a wager. slang
    — To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]
  12. A gun. slang
    — 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
  13. An undercover policeman. slang
    — The knockers around better do what I say so

词形变化

knockers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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

词源

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.
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