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Originally Posted by glatt
"Knackered" sounds like it must be a bad thing, based on the context here. Does it mean "damaged?". At first I assumed it meant "taken" but that doesn't seem right considering the next couple sentences.
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
slaughtered, as in butchering animals. A knackering house is an abbatoir. Just double checked, I guess it refers more specifically to slaughtering old, worn-out horses and other animals unfit for eating. So especially destroyed.
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It probably
is from the term for butchering.
Used to mean exceptionally tired (fit for the knacker's yard) or damaged. Buggered is used in the same way - to mean now unfit for purpose.
Although slaughtered means very, very drunk.
Knackers are also a word for plums. In the male fruit sense I mean.
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
What, no Urlaubsgeld?
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Is that like Danegeld? Didn't work for Ethelred.