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How to pronounce knocker in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms doorknocker, rapper
Type of device
Type Words
Synonyms boob, bosom, breast, tit, titty
Type of mamma, mammary gland
Type Words
Synonyms depreciator, detractor, disparager
Type of faultfinder, cynic
Has types libeler, maligner, mudslinger, defamer, muckraker, hatemonger, slanderer, backbiter, traducer, vilifier
Type Words
Type of someone, somebody, person, mortal, individual, soul
Derivation knock


open the door and see who the knocker is.
Type Words
Type of big deal, big wheel, big shot, big gun, big cheese, head honcho, big enchilada, big fish

Examples of knocker

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They were the only people on their estate with a shed that had a brass knocker.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Only make the knocker a far more vile figure than the object presumably vilified.
From the economist.com
So was Iowa safety Tyler Sash, the guy I had penciled in as my chief head-knocker.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Daniella occupied a room downstairs, which was equipped with its own door knocker.
From the en.wikipedia.org
You could also hang it from a festive ribbon tied to your front-door knocker.
From the kansas.com
At length, stifling his thoughts, he hastily clacked the brass knocker of the door.
From the gutenberg.org
It would seem a tough time to be a union door-knocker for liberal political causes.
From the denverpost.com
Knocker is a sitcom about a market researcher, written by and starring Neil Edmond.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The front door, with its new owl door knocker, opened directly into the living room.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
  • (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person
  • A person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is"
  • Detractor: one who disparages or belittles the worth of something
  • Breast: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
  • A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
  • The Knocker, Knacker, Bwca (Welsh), Bucca (Cornish) or Tommyknocker (US) is the Welsh and Cornish equivalent of Irish leprechauns and English and Scottish brownies. About two feet tall and grizzled, but not misshapen, they live beneath the ground. ...
  • Knocker is a British radio situation comedy broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7, recorded before a live audience. It is written by and stars Neil Edmond as Ian Dunn, a long suffering market researcher. The series also co-stars Paula Wilcox as Ian's boss, Mary. ...
  • A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door; A person who knocks (denigrates) many things; (usually in plural) A woman's breasts; A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking particularly in Cardigan etc. ...
  • (knockers) n: A woman's breasts.