knackered
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈnæk.əd/
knackered
- (UK, Irish, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Tired or exhausted.
- 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.
- 2003, Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare (editors), The Tour de France, 1903-2003: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values, Frank Cass Publishers, London, 2005, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ty0H-WzSR1YC&pg=PA225&dq=%22more|most+knackered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SfuXT8P-HLCYiAfDqunVBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20knackered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 225],
- Then, it all just gets worse and worse, you don't sleep so much, so you don't recover as well from the day's racing, so you go into your reserves, you get more knackered, so you sleep less... It's simply a vicious circle.
- 2009, Grace Maxwell, Falling & Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=e_A3x6QZWNMC&pg=PA84&dq=%22knackered%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gfmXT5X3Eo-viQfD2aCGBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22knackered%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 84],
- So my joy at hearing his voice quickly turns to a paroxysm of anxiety as he manages by exhausted gesture and sound to let us know how knackered he feels, how desperate to get horizontal, almost from the first moment he lands in the chair.
- 2002, Robert Edenborough, Effective Interviewing: A Handbook of Skills and Techniques, pages 97-98
- (tired, exhausted) cream crackered; See also Thesaurus:fatigued
- French: éreinté, claqué, HS
- German: gerädert
- Italian: straccato, sfibrato, spossato
- Spanish: agotado, reventado, harto, para el arrastre
- Simple past tense and past participle of knacker
knackered
- (UK, Irish, South Africa, colloquial) Broken, inoperative.
- 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.
- 2009, John Newton, Vance Miller - Kitchen Gangster?, page 82
- (broken, inoperative) broken, worn-out; See also Thesaurus:out of order
- French: foutu, HS, baisé, détraqué, fichu
- Italian: spacciato, fritto
- Spanish: roto, gastado, estropeado, averiado, jodido, para el arrastre, hecho unos zorros
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