knackered
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[edit] Etymology 1
From the verb knacker.
[edit] Adjective
knackered (comparative more knackered, superlative most knackered)
- (UK, Ireland, Australian, New Zealand, colloquial) Extremely tired or exhausted.
- I can't go out tonight -- I'm knackered.
- 2002, Robert Edenborough, Effective Interviewing: A Handbook of Skills and Techniques, pages 97-98
- I've got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I'm dead knackered at the end of the day so I don't know about going out and like studying every night.
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- Not used in North America, where generally unknown.
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- (tired, exhausted): cream crackered
[edit] Translations
extremely tired or exhausted
[edit] Verb
knackered
- Simple past tense and past participle of knacker.
[edit] Etymology 2
From "ready for the knacker's yard" or "fit to be knackered", meaning "worn-out livestock, fit to be slaughtered and rendered".
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knackered (comparative more knackered, superlative most knackered)
- (UK, Ireland, South Africa, colloquial) Broken, inoperative.
- 2003, Simon Murphy, The Murders of Mutchrose Village, page 28:
- In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...
- 2009, John Newton, Vance Miller - Kitchen Gangster?, page 82
- We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.
- 2003, Simon Murphy, The Murders of Mutchrose Village, page 28:
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broken, inoperative
