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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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

What, no Urlaubsgeld?

Is that like Danegeld? Didn't work for Ethelred.