English Dictionary

knocker

名詞

軽蔑的 くだけた表現 通例複数形 俗語 古語 南ウェールズ方言 古風

A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door. / A person who knocks. / A critic; one who disparages. / (informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something.

日本語の意味

（玄関扉に取り付けられ、打鍵板が付いた装置）ドアを叩くためのノッカー / ドアをたたく人 / 物事や対象を非難・けなす批評家（非公式、侮蔑的）

She polished the brass knocker until it gleamed in the sunlight.

彼女は日差しに輝くまで、真鍮製の扉をノックするための金具を磨いた。

意味（1）

A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.

His tongue became a staircase, his uvula the knocker/Of an ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future

意味（2）

A person who knocks.

He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.

意味（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.

意味（4）

(informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something.

意味（5）

(slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts.

意味（6）

(especially Cardigan, in South Wales, archaic) A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.

意味（7）

(pinball) 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 […]

意味（8）

(dated, slang) A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.

意味（9）

A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.

意味（10）

(geology) A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.

意味（11）

(slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager.

To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]

knockers （ plural ）