knocker.
A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
Meaning & usage
A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
A person who knocks.
A critic; one who disparages.
A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
A person's breast, especially if large.
A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise to signal that a free game has been earned.
A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
One who defaults on payment of a wager.
A gun.
An undercover policeman.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *knukô Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *knukōną Proto-West Germanic *knokōn Old English cnocian Middle English knokken English knock Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios 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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