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Definition: Knocker |
KnockerNoun1. A person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is". 2. One who disparages or belittles the worth of something. 3. Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman. 4. A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "knocker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A device on doors for rousing people; also, a device on foot for the same purpose. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of using a knocker, foretells you will be forced to ask aid and counsel of others. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Occupations | Removes cottonseed cakes from hydraulic presses after extraction of oil: Pulls lever or turns handwheel to release pressure on ram. Knocks cake loose and moves it to edge of press, using metal rod. Places cakes on table for removal of press cloth. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: KnockerSynonyms: boob (n), bosom (n), breast (n), depreciator (n), detractor (n), disparager (n), doorknocker (n), tit (n), titty (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Papilla, nipple, teat,papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla. |
Instrument | Handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Knocker |
| English words defined with "knocker": Clicket ♦ Rapper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "knocker": Black as a Newgate Knocker ♦ DURHAM MAN ♦ Newgate Knocker ♦ Oil the Knocker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Knocker Room (1993) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Knocker on the porter's lodge of the old Ursuline convent, New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pierce homestead, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Front door with original knocker. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mount Vernon. Door knocker at Mount Vernon I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The elder of the men lifted the knocker and rapped |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Knocker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.10% of the time. "Knocker" is used about 124 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.1% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.9% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Total | 100.00% | 124 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "knocker": door knocker ♦ on the knocker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "knocker": knocker-about, knocker-up. | |
Ending with "knocker": door-knocker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "knocker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrahës (beater), çok. (various references) | |
Arabic | مطرقة (beetle, clapper, drop hammer, gavel, hammer, mallet, maul, rapper), القارع (rapper). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чукач (striker), чукало (pestle, pounder, rapper), критикар (censor, critic, criticaster, faultfinder, kicker). (various references) | |
Chinese | 敲门人. (various references) | |
Czech | klepadlo. (various references) | |
Danish | vækningsmand (caller, knocker-up), traehammer (knocker-off), medarbejder der vækker personale i tjenestsberedskab (caller, knocker-up), doerhammer (door knocker). (various references) | |
Dutch | wekker (alarm, alarmclock), druppelvanger (bumper, gob deflector, gob interceptor, gob knocker), deurklopper (door knocker), aftikhamer (knocker-off). (various references) | |
Farsi | مزاحم (Bothersome, Gadfly, Intruder, Leech, Tiresome, Troublemaker, Troublous), کوبنده (Masher, Pounder), زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), ادم خرده گیر. (various references) | |
Finnish | tipanohjain (bumper, gob deflector, gob interceptor, gob knocker), puuvasara (knocker-off), puunuija (knocker-off). (various references) | |
French | tapette, marteau, heurtoir (door knocker). (various references) | |
German | klopfer (beater, mallet, sounder, sounders), titte (boob), Türklopfer (doorknocker). (various references) | |
Greek | κρούστησ πόρτασ, ρόπτρο θύρας, ρόπτρο (rapper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kopogó (rapping, rattling). (various references) | |
Italian | martello (gavel, gavels, hammer, Malleus), battente (fold, shutter, wing, wing of a door). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knock, knockdown, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ノッカー . (various references) | |
Manx | polteyr (thumper), donkeyder dorrys, crankeyder (tapper). (various references) | |
Norwegian | dørhammer. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockerknay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | batente de porta, batente (anvil, backstop, batch, cant, door-post, flap, fold, jamb, lay, leaf, mallet, stanchion, stop), batedor (bat, batsman, beater, coiner, escort, feeler, picker, scutch, stamper, thrasher, tracker, walloper), aldrava (latch). (various references) | |
Romanian | inel de metal, criticastru (carper, fault finder, kicker), ciocan de metal. (various references) | |
Russian | дверной молоток. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zvekir, sisa (boob, breast, mamma, teat). (various references) | |
Spanish | aldaba (hasp, latch). (various references) | |
Swedish | portklapp, gnällspik (whiner). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่เคาะประตู, คนเคาะประตู. (various references) | |
Turkish | kapı tokmağı (door handle, doorknob, doorknocker, rapper), kapı kapı dolaşan satıcı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | той, що стука", дверний молоток. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người gõ cửa vòng sắt để gõ cửa, người đập, người đánh (beater, lasher, thumper), ho n mỹ (flawless). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "knocker": knockers. (additional references) | |
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"Knocker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kenickie, kinnockic, Kloeckner, knakkr, knikker, Knocke, Kolker, Konosuke, necker, nocer, Nocker, Nokka. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-k-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: conker, reckon. | |
-2 letters: crone, knock, krone, ocker, recon. | |
-3 letters: cero, coke, cone, conk, core, cork, corn, keck, keno, kern, konk, kore, neck, nock, once, reck, rock. | |
-4 letters: con, cor, eon, ern, ken, kor, nor, oke, one, orc, ore, rec, roc, roe. | |
-5 letters: en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-k-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: knockers. | |
+2 letters: crookneck. | |
+3 letters: crooknecks. | |
+5 letters: karyokinetic, skyrocketing. | |
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