Definitions
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- noun a kind of water dragon, living in knuckerholes in
Sussex ,England
Etymologies
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From Old English nicor ("water monster; hippopotamus").
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Examples
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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.
The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer: Book summary 2010
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A lover and a fighter and he'll knock a knucker out
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"Aaron Rowand just swung at a knucker in the visitor's dugout."
McCovey Chronicles 2010
narniabound commented on the word knucker
"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)
January 21, 2008