English Dictionary

knacker

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnakə/

名詞

イギリス英語 アイルランド英語 攻撃的 俗語 イギリス英語 複数形 方言 廃用

One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc. / One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper. / A harness maker.

日本語の意味

小物やおもちゃなどを作る人。 / 指の間に持って、手を動かして叩き合わせる骨や木の部品の一つ（打楽器として用いられる場合もある）。 / （馬具などの）製作者、つまり馬具職人。

The village knacker spent his afternoons carving tiny wooden animals to sell at the market.

村の玩具や小物を作る職人は、午後を市場で売るために小さな木製の動物を彫ることに費やしていた。

意味（1）

One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.

Plow-wright , Cart-wright, Knacker and Smith

意味（2）

One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper.

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

意味（3）

A harness maker.

意味（4）

One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.

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

意味（5）

One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.

意味（6）

(Ireland, Britain, offensive) A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.

意味（7）

(Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe.

意味（8）

(UK, slang, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.

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.

意味（9）

An old, worn-out horse.

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!

意味（10）

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A collier's horse.

knackers （ plural ）