knacker
noun
[ ˈnakə ]
• a person whose business is the disposal of dead or unwanted animals, especially those whose flesh is not fit for human consumption.
• testicles.
• an uncouth or loutish person.
knacker
verb
• tire (someone) out.
• "this weekend has really knackered me"
Similar:
exhausted,
tired out,
worn out,
weary,
dog-tired,
bone-tired,
bone-weary,
ready to drop,
on one's last legs,
asleep on one's feet,
drained,
fatigued,
enervated,
debilitated,
spent,
jet-lagged,
out of breath,
breathless,
panting,
puffing,
puffed,
puffed out,
puffing and blowing,
gasping (for breath),
done in,
all in,
dead on one's feet,
beat,
dead beat,
shattered,
bushed,
fagged out,
knocked out,
wiped out,
running on empty,
zonked out,
worn to a frazzle,
frazzled,
bushwhacked,
whacked (out),
shagged out,
jiggered,
wabbit,
pooped,
tuckered out,
fried,
whipped,
stonkered,
toilworn,
fordone,
buggered,
rooted,
Opposite:
fresh as a daisy,
raring to go,
• damage (something) severely.
• "I knackered my ankle playing on Sunday"
Similar:
broken,
damaged,
faulty,
defective,
unsound,
not working,
not functioning,
non-functioning,
malfunctioning,
in disrepair,
inoperative,
out of order/commission,
not in working order,
broken-down,
out of kilter,
down,
on the blink,
on its last legs,
kaput,
bust,
busted,
conked out,
acting/playing up,
gone haywire,
gone phut,
finished,
done for,
wonky,
dud,
duff,
buggered,
Origin:
late 16th century (originally denoting a harness-maker, then a slaughterer of horses): possibly from obsolete knack ‘trinket’. The word also had the sense ‘old worn-out horse’ (late 18th century). knacker (sense 2 of the noun) may be from dialect knacker ‘castanet’, from obsolete knack ‘make a sharp abrupt noise’, of imitative origin. It is unclear whether the verb represents a figurative use of ‘slaughter’, from knacker (sense 1 of the noun), or of ‘castrate’, from knacker (sense 2 of the noun).
