knackern.¹

Brit.

/ˈnakə/, U.S.

/ˈnækər/

Forms: Also (sense 3) nacker

Etymology: < knack v. + -er suffix¹.

†1. One who sings in a lively manner. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > other singers

knackerc1380

jubilist1471

sol-faer1609

serenader1677

comic singer1753

ranter1769

country singer1790

caroler1806

chansonnier1822

troller1824

cantabank1834

triller1873

lion comique1899

chantwell1909

red-hot mama1924

song stylist1931

singer-songwriter1949

playback singer1963

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 191 Ȝif þes knackeris excusen hem bi song in þe olde lawe.

2. Something that makes a sharp cracking noise; spec. a castanet. Now dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [noun] > knack or clack > thing which

clack1611

knackera1627

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iii. sig. E2^v Our Knackers are the Fifes and Drums... Our Knackers are the shot that flie.

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 220 Castinetta's; knackers of the form of chesnuts, used to this day by the Spaniards in their dances.

1649 Duke of Newcastle Varietie iii. 43 in Country Captaine A Bachanalian dancing the Spanish Morisco, with knackers at his fingers.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Knackers, flat pieces of wood with which children beat time.

3. plural. The testicles. slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > testicle or testicles

bollockeOE

codOE

stone1154

balla1325

cullionc1386

genitoriesa1387

pendantsa1400

bollock stone?a1425

testiclec1425

jewelc1475

dimissariesa1513

dowsetc1560

pill1608

bauble1654

Aaron's bells1681

nutmegs1690

codlings?1691

testis1704

spermarium1861

spermary1864

marblesa1866

nut1865

knackers1866

rock1918

cobbler1934

plum1934

gooly1937

nad1964

cojones1966

nadgers1967

noonies1972

1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 76 Nackers, testes.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 150/2.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 523/2 Knackers... (Butchers, &c.), the testicles, also ‘knuckers’.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 549 Eh, Harry, give him a kick in the knackers.

1940 J. Cary Charley is my Darling xlv. 261 I'll murder the bastards... I'll take the knackers offen them.

1951 Landfall Sept. 177 Sling your hook out of this dump before it gets you by the knackers.

1958 M. Pugh Wilderness of Monkeys 79 Oh, smart boy, eh?.. Festival Hall fiddle! Nackers!

1969 G. Greene Trav. with my Aunt i. v. 42 I may regret him for a while tonight. His knackers were superb.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† knackern.²

Etymology: Compare knack n.² 1.

Obsolete.

A trickster, deceiver.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives

swikec1000

wielerOE

adderOE

knavec1275

treacherc1290

guiler1303

gabbera1325

tricharda1327

faitoura1340

jugglera1340

beswiker1340

wernard1362

knackerc1380

beguilera1382

deceiver1382

illusor1382

deceivant1393

fob1393

falsea1400

mocker?c1450

feature14..

deceptor1484

seductor1490

bullera1500

troker?a1500

craftera1529

circumventorc1540

bobber1542

cloyner?1550

illuder?1550

tricker1550

double-dealer1567

treacherer1571

falsary1573

abuser1579

falser1579

treachetour1590

deluder1592

ignis fatuus1592

foolmonger1593

prestigiator1595

aguiler1598

baffler1606

cog-foist1606

feaguer1610

guile-man1614

hocus-pocus1624

colt1632

hoodwink1638

blindfoldera1649

napper1653

cheat1664

fooler1677

underdealer1682

circumvenerc1686

chincher1688

dodger1698

nickum1699

sheep-shearer1699

trickster1711

bilker1717

trickologist1723

taker-in1776

bilk1790

duper1792

Yorkshire bite1801

intake1808

gammoner1819

doer1840

delusionist1841

fiddler1857

snide1874

hoodwinker1884

tanger1886

take-down1888

tiddlywinker1893

wangler1912

frost1914

twicer1924

lurkman1945

jive-ass1964

skanker1973

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 156 He þat..can helpe to anoie a pore man by knackis or chapitris..siche knackeris ben as proude of here veyn kunnynge as lucifer.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

knackern.³

Brit.

/ˈnakə/, U.S.

/ˈnækər/

Etymology: Origin obscure. In sense 1, the knacker may originally have made only the knacks or smaller articles belonging to harness, and hence have taken his name; but this is doubtful, as is also the connection of sense 2.

1. A harness-maker; a saddler. dialect.Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (1736) has ‘A Knacker, Restio’. (Restio is a ropemaker.) Johnson (1755) has Knacker ‘1. A maker of small work’ (quoting a version of quot. 1574). ‘2. A rope-maker’ (quoting Ainsworth). Craig 1847 has ‘A maker of knacks, toys, or small work; a rope-maker; a collar-maker’. All these dictionary-explanations or misunderstandings seem to arise out of the sense ‘harness-maker’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle- or harness-making > saddler or harness-maker

saddler1287

seller1311

fuster1415

collar-maker1481

saddle makerc1500

codder1507

knacker1574

fusterer1600

fustler1605

saddle-tree maker1619

saddle-carpenterc1721

tree-maker1828

whittawer1854

saddle stitcher1910

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > castanets

snapper1605

castanet1647

knocker1648

crotaloa1682

knacker1691

crotalum1728

snip-snap1736

jawbone1844

crotal1850

clave1928

crotale1938

1574 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 56 Ploughwrite, cartwrite, knacker & smith.

1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre iii. iv. §6. 96 Men of these trades, as Codders, or Knackers, Cartwrights, Smiths, and the like.

1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 104 A Knacker, one that makes Collars and other Furniture for Cart-horses.

1901 N.E.D. at Knacker Mod. Northampton Dial., You must take this collar to the knacker's to be altered, it wrings the horse's shoulders so much.

a. One whose trade it is to buy worn out, diseased, or useless horses, and slaughter them for their hides and hoofs, and for making dog's-meat, etc.; a horse-slaughterer. knacker's yard: Also transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun]

slaughterman1389

dog-killer1592

slaughterer1648

buffer1699

pork butcher1763

knacker1812

serpenticide1817

vulpicide1826

piggicide1837

canicide1852

ursicidea1861

birdicide1866

insecticide1866

horse-knacker1937

pigeoneer1944

piscicide1953

the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house > horse

knacker's yard1812

knackery1864

1812 Sporting Mag. 39 209 He was a knacker [note, A purchaser of worn-up horses].

1824 Monthly Mag. LVII. 109 The nackers' and catgut-makers' yards.

1875 A. Helps Social Pressure ii. 9 Four or five hundred horses are carried to the knacker's yard each week in London.

1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 128 Knacker's yard, the shipbreaker's yard.

1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 59 Knacker's yard: said of a place that looks a complete mess.

1967 T. Gunn Touch 42 The graveyard is the sea... They have all come who sought distinction hard To this universal knacker's yard.

b. One who buys old houses, ships, etc., for the sake of their materials, or what can be made of them.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > others

bell-hanger1540

powder monkey1670

articulator1798

universalist1801

sander1854

gummer?1881

shaver1885

wire-cutter1888

knacker1890

radiologist1905

groundhog1926

dogman1948

1890 Times 23 Aug. 4/6 Worm-eaten hulks..sent by ship knackers to find freight or a grave in the North Atlantic.

1899 Daily News 2 Feb. 3/1 The old house knacker was bad enough,..but he was innocence itself, compared with the new house knacker that has risen up.

1899 Daily News 12 June 8/4 Lovers of old London have been grieved by the news that No. 47, Leicester-square..where the painter [Reynolds] lived and worked..was to be made over to the house~knackers.

3. transferred. An old worn-out horse. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > inferior or old and worn-out

brockc1000

stota1100

jadec1386

yaud?a1513

roila1529

tit1548

hilding1590

tireling1590

dog horsec1600

baffle1639

Rosinante1641

aver1691

keffel1699

runt1725

hack horse1760

rip1775

kadisha1817

dunghill1833

pelter1854

crow-bait1857

caster1859

plug1860

knacker1864

plug horse1872

crock1879

skate1894

robbo1897

1864 H. Mayhew German Life & Manners I. 127 Such spavined knackers.

1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags I. ix. 198 The famous English hero [sc. a horse] was dead beat as any used-up knacker.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

knackerv.

Brit.

/ˈnakə/, U.S.

/ˈnækər/

Etymology: < knacker n.³ 2 or knacker n.¹ 3.

slang.

transitive. To kill; to castrate; usually in weakened sense, to exhaust, to wear out. So as an imprecation. Frequently as past participle or participial adjective.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)]

wearyc897

tirea1000

travailc1300

forwearya1325

taryc1375

tarc1440

matec1450

break1483

labour1496

overwearya1500

wear?1507

to wear out, forth1525

fatigate1535

stress1540

overtire1558

forwaste1563

to tire out1563

overwear1578

spend1582

out-tire1596

outwear1596

outweary1596

overspend1596

to toil out1596

attediate1603

bejade1620

lassate1623

harassa1626

overtask1628

tax1672

hag1674

trash1685

hatter1687

overtax1692

fatigue1693

to knock up1740

tire to death1740

overfatigue1741

fag1774

outdo1776

to do over1789

to use up1790

jade1798

overdo1817

frazzlea1825

worry1828

to sew up1837

to wear to death1840

to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847

gruel1850

to stump up1853

exhaust1860

finish1864

peter1869

knacker1886

grind1887

tew1893

crease1925

poop1931

raddle1951

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > infertile [verb (transitive)] > castrate or spay > castrate

geldc1225

lib1396

cut1465

castrate1609

delumbate1609

enervate1610

unstone1611

gliba1616

evirate1621

emasculate1623

capon1630

eunuchize1634

eunuchate1646

caponize1654

unpollux1654

eunucha1658

unman1657

dismember1697

saturnized1846

nut1916

knacker1936

1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 90/2 Knacker, umbringen; he's knackered, er ist abgemurkst worden.

1936 B. Penton Inheritors ix. 72 Coons is cheap. They'd knacker us white bushmen if they got the chance and let them Chows and Jimmy Tannas breed like rabbits.

1946 Penguin New Writing 27 79 His eyes narrowed but he knew I had him knackered.

1959 M. Pugh Chancer vi. 86 ‘Wasn't it Major Fleming with the Bren-gun?’ ‘Major Fleming be knackered. It was Ramsay.’

1963 New Society 22 Aug. 5/1 Other adoptions are ‘get knotted’ and ‘knackered’ which have come to mean innocently enough, ‘go to hell’, and ‘kaput’.

1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 258 Gor-Blimey came up, panting like a dog. ‘I'm knackered,’ he said. Blood was streaming down his face from a cut on his temple.

1971 Times 21 May 8/7 I kept thinking I should whip up the pace and then I'd think ‘I'm knackered, I'll leave it for another lap.’

1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon xxi. 283 We've been above Base Camp for twenty-eight days. If we had to go back to carrying now we'd have to go all the way back down for a rest. We're just too knackered to carry.

1975 Sunday Times 23 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 25/2 Oot a' mornin' daein' thae miracles. I'm knackered! Gie's a glass o' that wine. Nae kiddin' son, I'm knackered.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

n.¹c1380

n.²c1380

n.³1574

v.1886

单词	knacker
释义	knackern.¹ Brit. /ˈnakə/, U.S. /ˈnækər/ Forms: Also (sense 3) nacker Etymology: < knack v. + -er suffix¹. †1. One who sings in a lively manner. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > other singers knackerc1380 jubilist1471 sol-faer1609 serenader1677 comic singer1753 ranter1769 country singer1790 caroler1806 chansonnier1822 troller1824 cantabank1834 triller1873 lion comique1899 chantwell1909 red-hot mama1924 song stylist1931 singer-songwriter1949 playback singer1963 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 191 Ȝif þes knackeris excusen hem bi song in þe olde lawe. 2. Something that makes a sharp cracking noise; spec. a castanet. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [noun] > knack or clack > thing which clack1611 knackera1627 a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iii. sig. E2^v Our Knackers are the Fifes and Drums... Our Knackers are the shot that flie. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 220 Castinetta's; knackers of the form of chesnuts, used to this day by the Spaniards in their dances. 1649 Duke of Newcastle Varietie iii. 43 in Country Captaine A Bachanalian dancing the Spanish Morisco, with knackers at his fingers. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Knackers, flat pieces of wood with which children beat time. 3. plural. The testicles. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > testicle or testicles bollockeOE codOE stone1154 balla1325 cullionc1386 genitoriesa1387 pendantsa1400 bollock stone?a1425 testiclec1425 jewelc1475 dimissariesa1513 dowsetc1560 pill1608 bauble1654 Aaron's bells1681 nutmegs1690 codlings?1691 testis1704 spermarium1861 spermary1864 marblesa1866 nut1865 knackers1866 rock1918 cobbler1934 plum1934 gooly1937 nad1964 cojones1966 nadgers1967 noonies1972 1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 76 Nackers, testes. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 150/2. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 523/2 Knackers... (Butchers, &c.), the testicles, also ‘knuckers’. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 549 Eh, Harry, give him a kick in the knackers. 1940 J. Cary Charley is my Darling xlv. 261 I'll murder the bastards... I'll take the knackers offen them. 1951 Landfall Sept. 177 Sling your hook out of this dump before it gets you by the knackers. 1958 M. Pugh Wilderness of Monkeys 79 Oh, smart boy, eh?.. Festival Hall fiddle! Nackers! 1969 G. Greene Trav. with my Aunt i. v. 42 I may regret him for a while tonight. His knackers were superb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † knackern.² Etymology: Compare knack n.² 1. Obsolete. A trickster, deceiver. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives swikec1000 wielerOE adderOE knavec1275 treacherc1290 guiler1303 gabbera1325 tricharda1327 faitoura1340 jugglera1340 beswiker1340 wernard1362 knackerc1380 beguilera1382 deceiver1382 illusor1382 deceivant1393 fob1393 falsea1400 mocker?c1450 feature14.. deceptor1484 seductor1490 bullera1500 troker?a1500 craftera1529 circumventorc1540 bobber1542 cloyner?1550 illuder?1550 tricker1550 double-dealer1567 treacherer1571 falsary1573 abuser1579 falser1579 treachetour1590 deluder1592 ignis fatuus1592 foolmonger1593 prestigiator1595 aguiler1598 baffler1606 cog-foist1606 feaguer1610 guile-man1614 hocus-pocus1624 colt1632 hoodwink1638 blindfoldera1649 napper1653 cheat1664 fooler1677 underdealer1682 circumvenerc1686 chincher1688 dodger1698 nickum1699 sheep-shearer1699 trickster1711 bilker1717 trickologist1723 taker-in1776 bilk1790 duper1792 Yorkshire bite1801 intake1808 gammoner1819 doer1840 delusionist1841 fiddler1857 snide1874 hoodwinker1884 tanger1886 take-down1888 tiddlywinker1893 wangler1912 frost1914 twicer1924 lurkman1945 jive-ass1964 skanker1973 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 156 He þat..can helpe to anoie a pore man by knackis or chapitris..siche knackeris ben as proude of here veyn kunnynge as lucifer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021). knackern.³ Brit. /ˈnakə/, U.S. /ˈnækər/ Etymology: Origin obscure. In sense 1, the knacker may originally have made only the knacks or smaller articles belonging to harness, and hence have taken his name; but this is doubtful, as is also the connection of sense 2. 1. A harness-maker; a saddler. dialect.Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (1736) has ‘A Knacker, Restio’. (Restio is a ropemaker.) Johnson (1755) has Knacker ‘1. A maker of small work’ (quoting a version of quot. 1574). ‘2. A rope-maker’ (quoting Ainsworth). Craig 1847 has ‘A maker of knacks, toys, or small work; a rope-maker; a collar-maker’. All these dictionary-explanations or misunderstandings seem to arise out of the sense ‘harness-maker’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle- or harness-making > saddler or harness-maker saddler1287 seller1311 fuster1415 collar-maker1481 saddle makerc1500 codder1507 knacker1574 fusterer1600 fustler1605 saddle-tree maker1619 saddle-carpenterc1721 tree-maker1828 whittawer1854 saddle stitcher1910 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > castanets snapper1605 castanet1647 knocker1648 crotaloa1682 knacker1691 crotalum1728 snip-snap1736 jawbone1844 crotal1850 clave1928 crotale1938 1574 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 56 Ploughwrite, cartwrite, knacker & smith. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre iii. iv. §6. 96 Men of these trades, as Codders, or Knackers, Cartwrights, Smiths, and the like. 1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 104 A Knacker, one that makes Collars and other Furniture for Cart-horses. 1901 N.E.D. at Knacker Mod. Northampton Dial., You must take this collar to the knacker's to be altered, it wrings the horse's shoulders so much. 2. a. One whose trade it is to buy worn out, diseased, or useless horses, and slaughter them for their hides and hoofs, and for making dog's-meat, etc.; a horse-slaughterer. knacker's yard: Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun] slaughterman1389 dog-killer1592 slaughterer1648 buffer1699 pork butcher1763 knacker1812 serpenticide1817 vulpicide1826 piggicide1837 canicide1852 ursicidea1861 birdicide1866 insecticide1866 horse-knacker1937 pigeoneer1944 piscicide1953 the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house > horse knacker's yard1812 knackery1864 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 209 He was a knacker [note, A purchaser of worn-up horses]. 1824 Monthly Mag. LVII. 109 The nackers' and catgut-makers' yards. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure ii. 9 Four or five hundred horses are carried to the knacker's yard each week in London. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 128 Knacker's yard, the shipbreaker's yard. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 59 Knacker's yard: said of a place that looks a complete mess. 1967 T. Gunn Touch 42 The graveyard is the sea... They have all come who sought distinction hard To this universal knacker's yard. b. One who buys old houses, ships, etc., for the sake of their materials, or what can be made of them. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > others bell-hanger1540 powder monkey1670 articulator1798 universalist1801 sander1854 gummer?1881 shaver1885 wire-cutter1888 knacker1890 radiologist1905 groundhog1926 dogman1948 1890 Times 23 Aug. 4/6 Worm-eaten hulks..sent by ship knackers to find freight or a grave in the North Atlantic. 1899 Daily News 2 Feb. 3/1 The old house knacker was bad enough,..but he was innocence itself, compared with the new house knacker that has risen up. 1899 Daily News 12 June 8/4 Lovers of old London have been grieved by the news that No. 47, Leicester-square..where the painter [Reynolds] lived and worked..was to be made over to the house~knackers. 3. transferred. An old worn-out horse. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > inferior or old and worn-out brockc1000 stota1100 jadec1386 yaud?a1513 roila1529 tit1548 hilding1590 tireling1590 dog horsec1600 baffle1639 Rosinante1641 aver1691 keffel1699 runt1725 hack horse1760 rip1775 kadisha1817 dunghill1833 pelter1854 crow-bait1857 caster1859 plug1860 knacker1864 plug horse1872 crock1879 skate1894 robbo1897 1864 H. Mayhew German Life & Manners I. 127 Such spavined knackers. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags I. ix. 198 The famous English hero [sc. a horse] was dead beat as any used-up knacker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). knackerv. Brit. /ˈnakə/, U.S. /ˈnækər/ Etymology: < knacker n.³ 2 or knacker n.¹ 3. slang. transitive. To kill; to castrate; usually in weakened sense, to exhaust, to wear out. So as an imprecation. Frequently as past participle or participial adjective. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)] wearyc897 tirea1000 travailc1300 forwearya1325 taryc1375 tarc1440 matec1450 break1483 labour1496 overwearya1500 wear?1507 to wear out, forth1525 fatigate1535 stress1540 overtire1558 forwaste1563 to tire out1563 overwear1578 spend1582 out-tire1596 outwear1596 outweary1596 overspend1596 to toil out1596 attediate1603 bejade1620 lassate1623 harassa1626 overtask1628 tax1672 hag1674 trash1685 hatter1687 overtax1692 fatigue1693 to knock up1740 tire to death1740 overfatigue1741 fag1774 outdo1776 to do over1789 to use up1790 jade1798 overdo1817 frazzlea1825 worry1828 to sew up1837 to wear to death1840 to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847 gruel1850 to stump up1853 exhaust1860 finish1864 peter1869 knacker1886 grind1887 tew1893 crease1925 poop1931 raddle1951 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > infertile [verb (transitive)] > castrate or spay > castrate geldc1225 lib1396 cut1465 castrate1609 delumbate1609 enervate1610 unstone1611 gliba1616 evirate1621 emasculate1623 capon1630 eunuchize1634 eunuchate1646 caponize1654 unpollux1654 eunucha1658 unman1657 dismember1697 saturnized1846 nut1916 knacker1936 1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 90/2 Knacker, umbringen; he's knackered, er ist abgemurkst worden. 1936 B. Penton Inheritors ix. 72 Coons is cheap. They'd knacker us white bushmen if they got the chance and let them Chows and Jimmy Tannas breed like rabbits. 1946 Penguin New Writing 27 79 His eyes narrowed but he knew I had him knackered. 1959 M. Pugh Chancer vi. 86 ‘Wasn't it Major Fleming with the Bren-gun?’ ‘Major Fleming be knackered. It was Ramsay.’ 1963 New Society 22 Aug. 5/1 Other adoptions are ‘get knotted’ and ‘knackered’ which have come to mean innocently enough, ‘go to hell’, and ‘kaput’. 1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 258 Gor-Blimey came up, panting like a dog. ‘I'm knackered,’ he said. Blood was streaming down his face from a cut on his temple. 1971 Times 21 May 8/7 I kept thinking I should whip up the pace and then I'd think ‘I'm knackered, I'll leave it for another lap.’ 1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon xxi. 283 We've been above Base Camp for twenty-eight days. If we had to go back to carrying now we'd have to go all the way back down for a rest. We're just too knackered to carry. 1975 Sunday Times 23 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 25/2 Oot a' mornin' daein' thae miracles. I'm knackered! Gie's a glass o' that wine. Nae kiddin' son, I'm knackered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹c1380n.²c1380n.³1574v.1886
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