What's the difference between knicker and knocker?
Knicker
Definition:
(n.) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
(2) When she is bickering with Bleeker about the conception, and it looks as though he is going to have the last word by telling her that he has kept her knickers as a memento, she, without missing a beat, says, "I still have your virginity."
(3) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(4) Now before you get your knickers in a knot, of course I love my children – and I do a decent job of caring for them.
(5) Golby was raised in Hinckley, Leicestershire; his mother sewed knickers and his father worked in a factory, and there remains a matter-of-fact quality about him.
(6) And what would Andres Iniesta look like in a large pair of frilly knickers?
(7) But the old staples of knickers and knitwear are floundering and the search for the perfect homeware offer goes on.
(8) A frilly thriller Washing-line snobbery: why can’t I hang my knickers out to dry?
(9) We’ve all been asked to do T-shirts, knickers and mugs – endless charity rounds.
(10) (Apparently, the Whitney bra (£110) and knickers (£95), whose multiple elastic straps can be arranged in various permutations from the vaguely bondage-influenced to the properly rude, is flying off the shelves.)
(11) While the shop assistants are aware they're playing the role of knicker pimp, of jolly hostess, I wonder if the male customers are aware of their own role, a role learned from the 1970s: flustered man in lingerie department.
(12) Janie Schaffer, who founded the Knickerbox chain in the 80s and joined from US lingerie chain Victoria Secrets earned the nickname "the queen of knickers" and was described as "an inspirational appointment" when she joined M&S.
(13) If you wanted to make the point that women at Wimbledon wear coloured knickers... you could have done it more discreetly."
(14) For once in my life,” she sang, “I’m doing it all for me.” In the accompanying video, she starts out as a business executive, in skirt suit and specs, and within 50 seconds she’s stripped to bra and knickers.
(15) Still, as judge Len Goodman pointed out, she danced like she's got both legs down one hole in her knickers.
(16) My memories of working in the shop over Christmas are of customers grabbing frantically, of men buying a pair of knickers for one girlfriend and a basque for another, of the flowery heat of the store being broken by icy gusts from the swinging door.
(17) I won’t bite,” slurred Phil as he offered Vinegar Knickers a place in his shower.
(18) McBride suggests that the website spread false rumours that pictures exist of Osborne "posing in a bra, knickers and suspenders" and "with his face 'blacked up'".
(19) Instead of questioning this instinct that we're impure in our natural state (or even just wearing, um, bigger knickers?
(20) @lfeatherstone Like I did at 7 those of us who have had #FGM or at risk will and do talk without pulling down our knickers and checking.
Knocker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(2) During Rio's carnival, large groups of suburban gang members - the "bate-bolas" (ball-knockers) - congregate in the city for a huge costume challenge .
(3) Yet as much screen time is devoted to her wholly unlikely quarry: one Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan, excellent), a mild-mannered grief counsellor who enjoys jogging and jolly family days out when he's not strangling trainee solicitors or scribbling pictures of his clients' knockers in his notepad while they try to tell him about their dead children.
(4) 75 min: "Andy Gray seems to be attracting a lot of knockers; I once saw him having lunch with Suzanne Dando in my local gymnasium restaurant, on that same subject," writes Matt Savage.
(5) 4.54pm BST "It's been such a long, hard season and so many knockers and so many people going against us.
(6) I say "possibly" because no one knows what gender the shooty-bang thing you controlled in Space Invaders was because it didn't have stubble or knockers to define itself by.
(7) He was an antique dealer by now, a "knocker", and in his youth, after the first world war, had been a violinist in a dance orchestra on grand transatlantic liners.
(8) Kidd has insisted that his new prize is not there to "do down" the Booker but to provide an alternative, but the Booker knockers have, of course, seen it differently.
(9) The QALY pliers tend to play down the former and the QALY knockers the latter.
(10) Top universities not to blame for lack of diversity, say state headteachers Read more The college, which was founded in 1509 and is thought to be named after an ancient brass door knocker that now hangs in the dining hall, offered places to 11% of the state school students who applied there, according to the study’s analysis of Oxford’s admissions figures for 2012-14.