'knocker' definitions:
Definition of 'knocker'
(from WordNet)
noun
(Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person
noun
A person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is"
noun
One who disparages or belittles the worth of something [syn: detractor, disparager, depreciator, knocker]
noun
Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman [syn: breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty]
noun
A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door [syn: knocker, doorknocker, rapper]
Definition of 'knocker'
From: GCIDE
- knocker \knock"er\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance. [1913 Webster]
- Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person strikingly handsome, beautiful, or fine; one who wins admiration; a "stunner." [Slang.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 3. A species of large cockroach, especially {Blabera gigantea}, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 4. [usually used in pl.] a woman's breast. [vulgar] [PJC]
Synonyms of 'knocker'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- backbiter,
- bag,
- belittler,
- boobs,
- bosom,
- breast,
- breasts,
- brisket,
- bust,
- calumniator,
- carper,
- caustic critic,
- caviler,
- chest,
- criticizer,
- crop,
- cynic,
- debunker,
- decrier,
- defamer,
- deflater,
- depreciator,
- derogator,
- detractor,
- disparager,
- dug,
- faultfinder,
- hatchet man,
- knockers,
- libeler,
- mama,
- mamelon,
- mamelonation,
- mammary gland,
- mammilla,
- mammillation,
- momus,
- muckraker,
- mudslinger,
- nenes,
- nipple,
- pap,
- papilla,
- pigeon breast,
- railer,
- slanderer,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- teat,
- Thersites,
- thorax,
- tit,
- tits,
- titties,
- titty,
- traducer,
- udder