knackn.1
/nak/, U.S. /næk/ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking so as to produce sound > knocking > a knock
knock1377
knackc1380
rapa1586
rap-tap1733
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4599 Charlis lokedem be-hynde ys bak, And saw dele þar many a knak, & myche noyse make.
2. A sharp sound or noise such as is made in striking a stone with a hammer; a crack or snap.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [noun] > knack or clack
knackingc1380
clacking1565
knack1565
clack1598
clack-clack1849
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Concrepare digitis,..to make a fillip or knack with the fingers.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 424 [Which] made the bone to returne into his right place, with such a loude knack or crack, as it might be heard a great way off.
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. ii, in Wks. I. 535 The fellow trimes him silently, and has not the knacke with his sheeres, or his fingers. View more context for this quotation
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 214 The knack of the fly [used by nail-cutters]..nearly equals in the rapidity of its repetition the ticking of a watch.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] > instance of
hoker-wordOE
gabc1225
scornc1275
jape1377
bourda1387
gaudc1440
knack1513
scoffing1530
gleekc1540
jest1548
to have a fling at?1550
snack?1554
boba1566
taunta1566
gird1566
flim-flam-flirt1573
gibe1573
scoff1573
flouting-stock1593
mycterism1593
flirt1613
fleera1616
scomma1620
jeer1631
snouchc1780
brocard1837
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid Dyrectioun 21 Perpetualy bechydit with ilk knak.
a1568 in Bannatyne MS. 321/18 Than will thay mak at him a knak.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 58v Pointand thair hand with mony skorne & knak [S.T.S. ed. prints knax].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
knackn.2
/nak/, U.S. /næk/ 1. A trick; a device, artifice; formerly often, a deceitful or crafty device, a mean or underhand trick; later esp. an adroit or ingenious method of doing something, a clever expedient, a ‘dodge’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > a wile or cunning device
wrenchc888
craftOE
turnc1225
ginc1275
play?a1300
enginec1300
wrenkc1325
forsetc1330
sleightc1340
knackc1369
cautel138.
subtletya1393
wilea1400
tramc1400
wrinkle1402
artc1405
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
subtiltyc1440
jeopardy1487
jouk1513
pawka1522
frask1524
false point?1528
conveyance1534
compass1540
fineness1546
far-fetch?a1562
stratagem1561
finesse1562
entrapping1564
convoyance1578
lift1592
imagine1594
agitation1600
subtleship1614
artifice1620
navation1628
wimple1638
rig1640
lapwing stratagem1676
feint1679
undercraft1691
fly-flap1726
management1736
fakement1811
old tricka1822
fake1829
trickeration1940
swiftie1945
shrewdie1961
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception
wrenchc888
swikec893
braida1000
craftOE
wile1154
crookc1175
trokingc1175
guile?c1225
hocket1276
blink1303
errorc1320
guileryc1330
sleightc1340
knackc1369
deceitc1380
japec1380
gaudc1386
syllogism1387
mazec1390
mowa1393
train?a1400
trantc1400
abusionc1405
creekc1405
trickc1412
trayc1430
lirtc1440
quaint?a1450
touch1481
pawka1522
false point?1528
practice1533
crink1534
flim-flamc1538
bobc1540
fetcha1547
abuse1551
block1553
wrinklec1555
far-fetch?a1562
blirre1570
slampant1577
ruse1581
forgery1582
crank1588
plait1589
crossbite1591
cozenage1592
lock1598
quiblin1605
foist1607
junt1608
firk1611
overreach?1615
fob1622
ludification1623
knick-knacka1625
flam1632
dodge1638
gimcrack1639
fourbe1654
juggle1664
strategy1672
jilt1683
disingenuity1691
fun1699
jugglementa1708
spring1753
shavie1767
rig?1775
deception1794
Yorkshire bite1795
fakement1811
fake1829
practical1833
deceptivity1843
tread-behind1844
fly1861
schlenter1864
Sinonism1864
racket1869
have1885
ficelle1890
wheeze1903
fast one1912
roughie1914
spun-yarn trick1916
fastie1931
phoney baloney1933
fake-out1955
okey-doke1964
mind-fuck1971
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient
costOE
craftOE
custc1275
ginc1275
devicec1290
enginec1300
quaintisec1300
contrevurec1330
castc1340
knackc1369
findinga1382
wilea1400
conject14..
skiftc1400
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
policec1450
conjecturea1464
industry1477
invention1516
cunning1526
shift1530
compass1540
chevisance1548
trade1550
tour1558
fashion1562
invent?1567
expediment1571
trick1573
ingeny1588
machine1595
lock1598
contrival1602
contrivement1611
artifice1620
recipea1643
ingenuity1651
expedient1653
contrivance1661
excogitation1664
mechanism1669
expediency1683
stroke1699
spell1728
management1736
manoeuvre1769
move1794
wrinkle1817
dodge1842
jigamaree1847
quiff1881
kink1889
lurk1916
gadget1920
fastie1931
ploy1940
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 1033 She ne used no suche knakkes smale.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 184 Coueitous laweieris wiþ here gnackis & iapis.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1395 Al þis..Is but a iape, who seith, or a knak.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Trial of Fox l. 1005 in Poems (1981) 42 ‘Let be, Lowrence,’ quod scho, ‘ȝour cowrtlie knax.’
c1540 Earl of Surrey Poems (1854) 68 I have found a neck To keep my men in guard.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke Pref. 13 Swete pleasaunte knackes and conceiptes.
1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. ii. sig. C.iij That euer sonne of thine, shoulde play such a leude knacke.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xii. xviii. 276 A knacke to knowe whether you be bewitched, or no.
1660 Dial. Tom & Dick 1 If George does not do the knack, Ne're trust good-fellow more.
a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) v. 185 Slander seemeth..a fine knack, or curious feat of policy.
1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 11 How should equal Colours do the knack?
1829 T. Carlyle German Playwrights in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) II. 91 He has some knack, or trick of the trade.
2.
a. The ‘trick’ of dexterous performance; an acquired faculty of doing something cleverly, adroitly, and successfully. (Now the leading sense.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skill or adroitness > a skill or knack
featc1386
sleighta1400
art1503
knack1581
quirka1616
tricka1616
to get the hang of1845
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 34 They that haue any naturall towardnesse to write well, haue a knacke [printed aknecke] of drawing to.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 128 Our Holland had the true knack of Translating.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists i. i. 9 A violent Desire..to know the Knack or Secret by which Nature does all.
1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 10. ⁋6 He who hath no knack at writing sonnets.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 54 He always had a knack of making himself understood among the women.
1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 83 Sister Theresa has an admirable knack for teaching arithmetic.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 68 Most Spaniards have a peculiar knack in making omelettes.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) v, in Writings I. 48 You think the knack to do this does you good.
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 149 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack.
b. A ‘trick’ of action, speech, etc.; a personal habit of acting or speaking in a particular way.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > characteristic
qualitya1400
trick1576
way1671
knack1674
ways?1687
Pretty Fanny's waya1718
shtick1948
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. If the knack of borrowing, or robbing and pilfering rather, gets but a little further ground amongst us,..it will..be harder for an English-man to speak his own tongue without mingling others with it, than to speak a medly of sundry others with~out bringing in his own.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 31. ⁋9 The Lady..has only, with a very brisk Air, a Knack of saying the commonest Things.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 171 I have got such a Knack of writing, that, when I am by myself, I cannot sit without a Pen in my Hand.
1861 M. E. Braddon Trail Serpent i. v The Sloshy has quite a knack of swelling and bursting.
3. † b. A choice dish; a delicacy, a dainty. Obsolete.† c. An ingeniously contrived literary composition; a quaint device or conceit in writing. Obsolete.
a. concrete. An ingenious contrivance; a toy, trinket, trifle, knick-knack n. ? Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial
gnatc1000
ball play?c1225
smalla1250
triflec1290
fly1297
child's gamec1380
motec1390
mitec1400
child's playc1405
trufferyc1429
toyc1450
curiosity1474
fly-winga1500
neither mass nor matins1528
boys' play1538
nugament1543
knack?1544
fable1552
nincety-fincety1566
mouse1584
molehill1590
coot1594
scoff1594
nidgery1611
pin matter1611
triviality1611
minuity1612
feathera1616
fillip1621
rattle1622
fiddlesticka1625
apex1625
rush candle1628
punctilio1631
rushlight1635
notchet1637
peppercorn1638
petty John1640
emptiness1646
fool-fangle1647
nonny-no1652
crepundian1655
fly-biting1659
pushpin1660
whinny-whanny1673
whiffle1680
straw1692
two and a plack1692
fiddle1695
trivial1715
barley-strawa1721
nothingism1742
curse1763
nihility1765
minutia1782
bee's knee1797
minutiae1797
niff-naff1808
playwork1824
floccinaucity1829
trivialism1830
chicken feed1834
nonsensical1842
meemaw1862
infinitesimality1867
pinfall1868
fidfad1875
flummadiddle1882
quantité négligeable1885
quotidian1902
pipsqueak1905
hickey1909
piddle1910
cream puff1920
squat1934
administrivia1937
chickenshit1938
cream puff1938
diddly-squat1963
non-issue1965
Tinkertoy1972
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy > gewgaw or trinket
baublec1330
gaudc1430
gayc1475
strincate1489
trim-tram1523
gewgawa1529
trinketa1533
toy1548
gaudy1555
baublery1583
trinkilo1631
jingle-jangle1640
prettiness1649
trinkum1665
knacka1677
knick-knack1682
trinkum-trankum1699
knick-knacket1793
knick-knackery1812
trankum1819
gaw1822
pretty1882
trinklet1897
mathom1954
tchotchke1968
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial
gewgaw?c1225
frivolc1450
whim-whama1529
jim-jamc1540
trickc1550
flamfew1574
ribaldry1594
bubble1598
kickshawa1616
fairy money1616
foolation1628
fingle-fanglea1652
trangama1658
tinsel1660
gingerbread1664
finnimbrun1676
gimcrack1676
knacka1677
tawdrum1680
knick-knack1682
trantlum1768
knick-knacket1793
folderol1820
jigamaree1824
novelty1840
fool's gold1870
flapdoodle1877
fal-lal1902
?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. B.i Nedyls, threde thymbell, shers, and all suche knackes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 67 Why 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell, A knacke, a toy, a tricke, a babies cap: Away with it. View more context for this quotation
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 104 Springs, and wheels, and such mechanick knacks.
a1680 Lady Fanshawe in Lady Halkett & Lady Fanshawe Mem. (1979) 157 He sent me a very rich present of perfumes,..skinnes, gloves, and purses imbrodered, with other knacks of the same kind.
1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 557 A Thousand pretty Knacks..which she made with Fish-Bones and Shells, with Reeds and Rushes.
1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 68 All the glittering and endless succession of knacks and gewgaws.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiv. 360 The pedlar's knacks and gaudy trash [ Wint. T. iv. iv.] absorb Mopsa's whole gloating vision.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > delicacy or titbit
daintethc1290
daintyc1300
morselc1390
confection1393
delicec1405
delicacya1425
delicatea1475
friandise1484
deliciositiesa1500
daintive1526
junket1538
knack1548
daintrel1575
cate1578
pulpament1600
gaudy1622
regalo1622
daint1633
titbita1641
scitament1656
regale1673
knick-knack1682
nicety1704
bonne bouche1721
diablotin1770
sunket1788
regalement1795
confiture1802
bon-bon1821
sock1825
delicatessen1853
good things1861
tiddlywinks1893
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark viii. 56 The knackes and junckettes of the Rhetoricians, the royall dishes of the Philosophers.
1592 R. Greene Thirde Pt. Conny-catching sig. B4 Hee wanted no ordinarie good fare, wine and other knackes.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xx. 709 The flower of meale,..whereof the pasterers..doe make wafers, and such like daintie knacks.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 26 As some teachers give to Boyes Iunkets and knacks, that they may learne apace.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > use of conceits > conceit
crink1534
conceit1589
knack1605
conception1643
concetto1692
1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 26 Our Poets hath their knacks..as Ecchos, Achrostiches, Serpentine verses [etc.].
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 98 Ovid that grand Master of love knacks.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. xiii. 532 You..reproach them..that they have not taken up your Allegorical knacks.
1662 J. Denham Rump i. 23 All those pretty Knacks you do compose, Alas, what are they but Poems in prose..?
4. local. = kirn-baby n. See also neck n.3
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > three-dimensional representation > [noun] > model of a human
woman1509
manikin1535
malkinc1565
man1600
kirn-baby1777
maid1794
knack1813
snowman1827
moggie1896
1813 H. Ellis in Brand's Observ. Pop. Antiq. (rev. ed.) I. 433 (note) At Werington, in Devonshire,..when a farmer finishes his reaping, a small quantity of the ears of the last corn are twisted or tied together into a curious kind of figure,..which is called ‘a knack’.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as knack-maker, knack-shop;
ΚΠ
1649 Mercurius Aulicus 21–28 Aug. 14 Resolved by the supreme Knack-makers, that a knack be brought in for settling the Colledge of Westminster.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Knacks, or Toies, a Knack-shop, or Toy-shop.
C2. † knack-hardy adj. Obsolete bold in the use of trickery.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective]
ficklea1000
hinderyeapc1000
swikelc1000
as right (also stiff, straight, crooked, etc.) as a ram's hornOE
fakenOE
swikefulc1100
frakelc1175
swikec1175
wrenchfulc1225
wielfulc1275
ginfulc1300
guileful13..
treacherousc1330
guilesomea1382
guilousc1384
enginousa1393
deceivant1393
treacherc1400
serpentinec1422
deceivousa1425
guilyc1430
beguilous1483
slapea1500
fallacious1509
treget1519
gaudya1529
beguileful1530
Spanish1530
juggling?1531
snakish1532
prestigious?1534
knack-hardy1549
pratting1570
fogging1585
snakya1586
abusive1595
faithless1597
faiterous1600
guiled1600
trompant1605
amusing1609
braida1616
dodging1625
Ulyssean1639
tricksome1648
knackish1660
hocus-pocus1668
bubbling1675
rusé1689
tricking1697
trickish1705
lurching1728
tricksy1766
trickful1775
tricky1786
slippy1828
shirky1847
dodgy1861
sidewinding1902
slithery1902
hyping1968
deceiteous-
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Pet. ii. f. xviiiv They..contemne those that be set in publyke authoritie, beyng knacke hardye and shameles.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 266 Not one dare be so knack-hardy as to breake into their friendes and fellowes fence and enclosure.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
knackv.
/nak/, U.S. /næk/ΘΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)]
teleeOE
laughOE
bismerc1000
heascenc1000
hethec1175
scornc1175
hokera1225
betell?c1225
scorn?c1225
forhushc1275
to make scorn at, toc1320
boba1382
bemow1388
lakea1400
bobby14..
triflea1450
japec1450
mock?c1450
mowc1485
to make (a) mock at?a1500
to make mocks at?a1500
scrip?a1513
illude1516
delude1526
deride1530
louta1547
to toy with ——1549–62
flout1551
skirp1568
knack1570
to fart against1574
frump1577
bourd1593
geck?a1600
scout1605
subsannate1606
railly1612
explode1618
subsannea1620
dor1655
monkeya1658
to make an ass of (someone)1680
ridicule1680
banter1682
to run one's rig upon1735
fun1811
to get the run upon1843
play1891
to poke mullock at1901
razz1918
flaunt1923
to get (or give) the razoo1926
to bust (a person's) chops1953
wolf1966
pimp1968
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > so as to produce a sound > knock
knockc1000
tapc1425
rap1440
chopa1522
knap1535
knack1570
chap1774
1570 J. Foxe tr. Prudentius Death Cassianus in Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 129/2 In bodkyn wise at him they nacke, They laugh to see him skippe.
1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Bij Nay then by the masse, its time to be knacking.
2. † b. To break or crack with a sharp sound. [Compare Swedish knacke-brod, a sort of biscuit or cracknel.]
a. transitive. To strike (things or their parts) together so as to produce a sharp abrupt noise; to gnash (the teeth); to snap (the fingers). Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > bring into collision > with noise > with sharp noise
knack1490
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xix. 406 He knacked his teeth for angre.
?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. B.ii Cast not bones vnder the table, nor none do thou knacke.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Matassiner des mains, to moue, knacke, or waggle the fingers, like a Iugler.
a1746 E. Chicken Collier's Wedding (1764) 28 The Pipes scream out her fav'rite Jig, Then knack'd her Thumbs and stood her Trig.
ΘΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > with a noise
crackc1300
to-clattera1375
crash?a1400
knack1546
scrash1640
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [verb (transitive)] > crack or snap > break with
knap1535
knack1546
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiiiv Knak me that nut.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie K 77 To Knacke, or breake a nutte.
3. intransitive. To make a sharp abrupt noise, as when stones are struck together. Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [verb (intransitive)] > knack or clack
clack1530
knack1603
clapper1845
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1276 Knacking (as it were) with his fingers over his head.
1617 Bp. J. Hall Quo Vadis? (new ed.) xx. 72 If they can heare their beades knacke vpon each other.
1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience iv. 23 Sheep..flye without cause, scared, (as some say) with the sound of their own feet: Their feet knack, because they flye, and they fly, because their feet knack.
18.. Colliers' Pay Week in Brockett N.C. Gloss. He jumps, and his heels knack and rattle.
a. transitive. To ‘break’ (notes: see break v. 2h, note n.2 II.); to sing with trills or runs; to sing in a lively or ornate manner, to trill forth. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > trill
knackc1380
quaver1570
warble1576
thrill1646
trilla1701
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 192 Þre or foure proude & lecherous lorellis schullen knacke þe most deuout seruyce þat noman schal here þe sentence..& þanne strumpatis & þeuys preisen sire iacke or hobbe,..how smale þei knacken here notis.
c1388 in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 482 God seis not þat he is blessid þat syngus or knackus swete notis.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 153 For to sing vs emong, Right as he knakt it, I can.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > sing jovially
carolc1369
knacka1529
ditty1602
trollolla1734
chirrup1775
lilt1787
troll1879
a1529 J. Skelton Agaynste Comely Coystrowne in Wks. (1843) I. 15 Curyowsly he can both counter and knak of Martyn Swart and all hys mery men.
c. intransitive. To talk finely or mincingly. dialect.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > affectedly or mincingly
knack1691
mince1807
yaw-yaw1854
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 41 Knack, to speak finely. And it is used of such as do speak in the Southern Dialect.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Knack, to speak affectedly, to ape a style beyond the speaker's education.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 97 She knacks and knappers like a London miss.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [verb (transitive)]
heascenc1000
gabc1225
tita1400
knackc1425
scoff1530
flout1551
taunt1560
gird1573
beflout1574
scoff1578
gibe1582
flirt1593
gleek1593
to geck at1603
to gall ata1616
jeera1616
gorea1632
jest1721
fleer1732
chi-hike1874
chip1898
chip1898
to sling off (at)1911
jive1928
sound1958
wolf1966
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. x. 1728 This Kyng Edward all wyth gawdys Knakkyd Robert the Brws wyth frawdis.
a1500 Ratis Raving ii. 371 Thai wyll men..scorn & knak.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. iii. [ii.] 13 A multitude ȝong Troianis Byssy to knak and pull the presoneir.
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n.1c1380
n.2c1369v.c1380- to be hard sometimes badly hit
- to be hard sometimes heavily hit
- to be hard stead
- to be hard stiffly stead
- to be hard straitly stead
- to be hard upon
- to be hat in hand to
- to be hatching
- to be haunted
- to be hell on
- to be hep to
- to be hepped on
- to be hepped to
- to be here
- to be here for
- to be here to stay
- to be herself
- to be high dutch to a person
- to be high up the stick
- to be himself
- to be hip to something
- to be hipped on
- to be hitting on all four or six
- to be hitting on all four or six cylinders
- to be hold oneself still