英语词汇knackered的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	knackered
词源	knackered; knacker. A knacker is someone who purchases old livestock and slaughters them mainly for their hides and meat. This chiefly British slang, probably of Scandinavian ori- gin, yielded the mainly British adjective knackered, which means tired out, beat, exhausted, as in Pat Barker’s novel Dou- ble Vision (2003): “Up early, across to the studio by eight, five hours unbroken work that generally left her knackered for the rest of the day . . .”
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