KNOCKER
Dictionary entry overview: What does knocker mean?
• KNOCKER (noun)
The noun KNOCKER has 5 senses:
1. (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person
2. a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance)
3. one who disparages or belittles the worth of something
4. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
5. a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
Familiarity information: KNOCKER used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
• KNOCKER (noun)
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("knocker" is a kind of...):
big cheese; big deal; big enchilada; big fish; big gun; big shot; big wheel; head honcho (an important influential person)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
Meaning:
A person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
open the door and see who the knocker is
Hypernyms ("knocker" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Meaning:
One who disparages or belittles the worth of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
disparager; detractor; depreciator; knocker
Hypernyms ("knocker" is a kind of...):
cynic; faultfinder (someone who is critical of the motives of others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knocker"):
backbiter; defamer; libeler; maligner; slanderer; traducer; vilifier (one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel)
hatemonger (one who arouses hatred for others)
muckraker; mudslinger (one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage))
Meaning:
Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
titty; tit; breast; boob; knocker; bosom
Hypernyms ("knocker" is a kind of...):
mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)
Meronyms (parts of "knocker"):
lactiferous duct (ducts of the mammary gland that carry milk to the nipple)
areola; ring of color (small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite)
Holonyms ("knocker" is a part of...):
adult female body; woman's body (the body of an adult woman)
Meaning:
A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
doorknocker; rapper; knocker
Hypernyms ("knocker" is a kind of...):
device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)
Holonyms ("knocker" is a part of...):
front door; front entrance (exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building)
