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- Probably of Scandinavian origin.
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“There must be a few dirty jobs, such as knackers 'men, and also text-revisers: are the philologists to carry out tasks of this nature?”
We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8
“The city itself is not just home to deities and "knackers" (those with magical talents) run amok, but has powers and disciples, called”
“Lions, taken down from the brewery roof and destined for the knackers' yard, or an architectural salvage shed run by Bermondsey wide boys, were saved by the personal intervention of King George VI.”
“Even her colleagues think she has some brass knackers.”
The Guardian: TV review: 24 Hours in A&E; The Kids are Alright
“But to want to see the back of chick-lit because you've read too many blurbs that feature a single girl with too many shoes and a Martini habit is a bit like consigning pop music to the knackers' yard just because you don't like The X Factor.”
“Many horses are sent to knackers' yards or turned into meat to feed hunt dogs, according to Animal Aid.”
The Guardian: Record number of British racehorses being slaughtered for meat exports
“At a village fete in Kent over the weekend I saw three Kent officers sweating their knackers off in full kit, vets and hi-viz.”
“There were four debutants including one, José Enrique, who arrived 24 hours earlier and was thrust into the team when Fábio Aurelio returned injured to the knackers yard.”
The Guardian: Patience is key for Kenny Dalglish after Liverpool are held by Sunderland
“As long as it's not exam time, just sit in somewhere that knackers your institution's I.T. structure.”
The Guardian: Student protests: Police ask colleges for demonstration details
“Today's greens, it charges, seek to sustain the culture that knackers the planet, demanding only that we replace old, polluting technologies with new ones – wind farms, solar arrays, wave machines – that wreck even more of the world's wild places.”
The Guardian: I share their despair, but I'm not quite ready to climb the Dark Mountain
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muamor ..slang term for testicles. Jun 28, 2007