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"KNOCKERS" is a plural of: knocker. |
Date "KNOCKERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Knockers Goblins who dwell in mines, and point out rich veins of lead and silver. In Cardiganshire the miners attribute the strange noises so frequently heard in mines to these spirits, which are sometimes called coblyns (German, kobolds). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Breasts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: KNOCKERS |
| Specialty definitions using "KNOCKERS": breasts ♦ HAMMER ♦ NOISY DOG RACKET. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What knockers! (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Diary of Knockers McCalla (1968) Knockers Up (1963) Big Knockers 18 (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "KNOCKERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "KNOCKERS" is used about 42 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 (plural) | 100% | 42 | 52,864 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "KNOCKERS": door-knockers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "KNOCKERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βυζιά (boob, knockers 1, knockers 2, tits), μπαλκόνια (balconies, jugs, knockers 2, tits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tojások, tök (cucurbit, dork, goulard, gourd, marrow, pumpkin, squash, vegetable marrow), mogyorók, lökhárítók, herék (marbles), dudák, didik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ockersknay tetas (boobs, jugs, teats, tits). (various references) pattar. (various references) เต้านม (ผู้หญิง) (คำหยาบ) (bazoom(s), murphy). (various references) memeler (boobs, breasts, nipples). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"KNOCKERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: knackers, Knocke, knockeross, Nocker. (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-s" | |
-1 letter: conkers, knocker, reckons. | |
-2 letters: censor, conker, crones, knocks, ockers, reckon, recons. | |
-3 letters: ceros, cokes, cones, conks, cores, corks, corns, corse, crone, kecks, kenos, kerns, knock, konks, krone, necks, nocks, ocker, onces, recks, recon, rocks, scone, score, scorn, senor, sneck, snore. | |
-4 letters: cero, coke, cone, conk, cons, core, cork, corn, cors, eons, erns, eros, keck. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-k-n-o-r-s" | |
+2 letters: crooknecks. | |
+4 letters: skyrocketing. | |
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