Did you perchance mean one of these? knacker, knicker, knocker
Etymologies
- From Old English nicor ("water monster; hippopotamus"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Caught between belief in the old gods and Christianity (790 AD, Britain), Jack calls upon his ash wood staff to subdue a passel of unruly monks, and, for his daring, ends up in a knucker hole.”
“A lover and a fighter and he'll knock a knucker out”
“Aaron Rowand just swung at a knucker in the visitor's dugout.”
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narniabound "A dialect word for a kind of water dragon, living in knuckerholes in Sussex, England. The word comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'nicor' which means 'water monster' and is used in the poem Beowulf." (Wikipedia) Jan 21, 2008