English Online Dictionary. What means knock? What does knock mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *knew- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew-, *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge (“to squeeze”), Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɒk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /nɑk/
- Rhymes: -ɒk
Noun
knock (countable and uncountable, plural knocks)
- An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
- A sharp impact.
- (figuratively, informal) A criticism.
- (figuratively, informal) A blow or setback.
- (automotive, uncountable) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
- (cricket, slang) A batsman's innings.
- (baseball) A ball hit into play, especially one that becomes a hit.
- (cycling, uncountable) Synonym of hunger knock
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Verb
knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)
- (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
- (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
- (transitive, colloquial, originally US) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
- (transitive, baseball) To #Verb|hit a ball into play.
- (transitive, British, slang, dated) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
- (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
- Synonyms: knock off; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (transitive, slang) To prosecute under the law; to arrest, imprison, etc.
- (intransitive, card games, rummy) To end play by declaring one's hand to have under a certain amount of deadwood.
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Further reading
- “knock v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- [Francis Grose] (1785) “Knock”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC: “to knock a woman, to have carnal knowledge of her”
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Noun
knock
- Alternative form of knaugh
References
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136