knacker

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
2. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand.
3. (archaic) A harnessmaker or saddlemaker; their place of business (e.g., saddlery).
4. One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
5. One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
6. (British, Ireland, ethnic, offensive, slur) An itinerant person, especially one of Irish Traveller heritage.
7. (Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger, or similar.
8. (UK, in-plural, slang, vulgar) A testicle.
9. An old, worn-out horse.
10. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A collier's horse.

Verb

1. (UK, slang, transitive) To tire out, exhaust; to beat up and use up (something), leaving it worn out and damaged.
2. (UK, slang, transitive) To reprimand.

Conceptos

descuartizador

reventar

desollador

Sinónimos

flayer

fleecer

castanets

renderer

saddler

Traducciones

équarrisseur

Abdecker

vilder

yıkmacı

squartatore

yıkıcı

Wasenmeister

εργολάβος κατεδαφίσεων

crever

déglinguer

desballestador

تاجر الخيول

scotennatore

scorticatore

sloper

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈnakə/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con islandés: hnakkur

In summary

From Old Norse hnak (“saddle”) (whence Icelandic hnakkur (“saddle”)).