Knacker vs Snacker - What's the difference?
knacker | snacker |
One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper.
A harness maker.
One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
* 1933 , George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. XXII, Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition, pg. 117-118,
One who dismantles old ships, houses etc., and sells their components.
(Ireland, British, offensive) A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.
(Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe.
To tire out, become exhausted.
As a verb knacker
is .As a noun snacker is
someone who eats snacks.knacker
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Mortimer)
- (Halliwell)
- After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker
Derived terms
* knacker's yardVerb
(en verb)- Carrying that giant statue up those stairs knackered me out