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English
Etymology
From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *knew- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew-, *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge (“to squeeze”), Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
knock (countable and uncountable, plural knocks)
- An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
I heard a knock on my door.
- A sharp impact.
He took a knock on the head.
- (figuratively) A criticism.
2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph:Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.
- (figuratively) A blow or setback.
1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:"Come on!" cried Mr. Beaver, who was almost dancing with delight. "Come and see! This is a nasty knock for the Witch! It looks as if her power was already crumbling."
- (automotive, uncountable) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
- (cricket) A batsman's innings.
He played a slow but sure knock of 35.
- (cycling, uncountable) Synonym of hunger knock
Derived terms
Translations
abrupt rapping sound
- Albanian: e trokitur f
- Armenian: թակոց (hy) (tʻakocʻ)
- Bulgarian: чукане (bg) n (čukane)
- Catalan: cop (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: (please verify) 敲 (haau1)
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: bank (da) n
- Dutch: kloppen (nl) n, aankloppen (nl) n
- Estonian: koputus
- Finnish: koputus (fi)
- French: coup (fr) m
- Georgian: კაკუნი (ḳaḳuni)
- German: Klopfen (de) n
- Greek: χτύπος (el) (chtýpos)
- Hebrew: דפיקה f (dfiká)
- Hungarian: kopogás (hu), kopogtatás (hu)
- Indonesian: ketukan (id), ketokan (id)
- Italian: colpo (it) m, botta (it) f, botto (it) m
- Japanese: コンコン (konkon)
- Korean: 노크 (ko) (nokeu), 노킹 (noking)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: banking m
- Polish: puknięcie n, stuk (pl) m, stuknięcie (pl) n, stukot (pl) m
- Portuguese: batida (pt) f
- Russian: стук (ru) m (stuk)
- Scottish Gaelic: gnogadh m
- Slovak: klepnutie n, klopanie n
- Spanish: golpe (es) m
- Swedish: knackning (sv) c
- Thai: เคาะ (th) (kɔ́)
- Ukrainian: стук m (stuk)
- Welsh: cnoc
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Verb
knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)
- (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
Knock on the door and find out if they’re home.
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: , London: Nath Ponder , →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, , 1928, →OCLC, page 3:Then ſaid Evangeliſt, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto: ſo ſhalt thou ſee the Gate; at which, when thou knockeſt, it ſhall be told thee what thou ſhalt do.
- (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Master, knock the door hard.
- (transitive, colloquial, originally US) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Thing's the Play”, in Strictly Business:And my friend, the reporter, could see nothing funny in this! Sent out on an assignment to write up a roaring, hilarious, brilliant joshing story of—but I will not knock a brother—let us go on with the story.
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 148:A Judge must be respected, / A Judge you mustn't knock / Or else you'll be detected / And shoved into the dock.
1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books, published 2014, page 386:“And what do you care when some folks start knocking you? It’s a sign you getting some place.”
1980 November 27, “Inclusive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:The pious have sometimes knocked the day [Thanksgiving] for its laughter, its late sleeping, its overeating.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 – 1 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport:Despite enjoying more than their fair share of possession the visitors did not look like creating anything, with their lack of a killer ball painfully obvious as they harmlessly knocked the ball around outside the home side's box without ever looking like they would hurt them.
- (transitive, British, slang, dated) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
- (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
I knocked against the table and bruised my leg.
I accidentally knocked my drink off the bar.
1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., →OCLC:"The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go."
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
- Synonyms: knock off; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (transitive, slang) To prosecute under the law; to arrest, imprison, etc.
2006, Noire , Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 134:The cops had busted us for selling hot designer bags up on Utica Avenue for some cat who figured we was too young to get knocked if we got caught, but two fat white po-pos said fuck how young we was, and threw us in a cell for damn near three days until they could contact Noojie to come get us out.
- (intransitive, card games, rummy) To end play by declaring one's hand to have under a certain amount of deadwood.
Derived terms
Translations
to rap one's knuckles against something
- Albanian: trokas (sq)
- Arabic: خَبَطَ (ḵabaṭa), دَقَّ (ar) (daqqa), طَرَقَ (ar) (ṭaraqa)
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܢܩܫ (nqaš)
- Armenian: բախել (hy) (baxel)
- Azerbaijani: döymək (az)
- Belarusian: сту́каць impf (stúkacʹ), сту́кнуць pf (stúknucʹ)
- Brunei Malay: katuk
- Bulgarian: чу́кам (bg) impf (čúkam), чу́кна pf (čúkna)
- Burmese: ခေါက် (my) (hkauk)
- Catalan: colpejar (ca), batre (ca), tustar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 敲 (haau1)
- Dungan: ко (ko), кә (kə)
- Mandarin: 敲 (zh) (qiāo)
- Czech: klepat impf, zaklepat pf
- Danish: banke (da)
- Dutch: kloppen (nl), aankloppen (nl)
- Estonian: koputama (et)
- Finnish: koputtaa (fi), koputella (fi), nakuttaa (fi)
- French: frapper (fr)
- Galician: petar (gl)
- Georgian: კაკუნი (ḳaḳuni)
- German: klopfen (de)
- Greek: χτυπάω (el) (chtypáo)
- Ancient Greek: κόπτω (kóptō)
- Ancient: κρούω (kroúō)
- Higaonon: toktok
- Hindi: खटखटाना (hi) (khaṭakhṭānā)
- Hungarian: kopog (hu), kopogtat (hu)
- Icelandic: banka
- Indonesian: ketuk (id), ketok (id)
- Italian: bussare (it), battere (it), sbattere (it)
- Japanese: ノックする (ja) (nokku suru), 叩く (ja) (たたく, tataku)
- Kabuverdianu: konki
- Kazakh: қағу (qağu), тақылдату (taqyldatu)
- Khmer: ជោះ (km) (cŭəh), គោះ (km) (kŭəh)
- Korean: 노크하다 (nokeuhada), 두드리다 (ko) (dudeurida)
- Kyrgyz: кагуу (ky) (kaguu), такылдатуу (ky) (takıldatuu)
- Ladino: chaftear
- Lao: ເຄາະ (khǫ)
- Latin: pulsō
- Latvian: klauvēt
- Lithuanian: pasibelsti
- Macedonian: чука impf (čuka), чукне pf (čukne)
- Malay: ketuk (ms)
- Maori: pātukituki, pātōtō
- Middle English: knokken
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тогших (mn) (togšix)
- Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠭᠰᠢᠬᠤ (toɣsiqu)
- Ngazidja Comorian: urema (transitive)
- Norwegian: banke (no)
- Bokmål: banke (no)
- Old Church Slavonic: потꙑкати (potykati)
- Old English: cnocian
- Ottoman Turkish: چالمق (çalmak)
- Persian: زدن (fa) (zadan), کوبیدن (fa) (kubidan)
- Polish: pukać (pl) impf, zapukać (pl) pf, stukać (pl) impf, zastukać pf
- Portuguese: bater (pt)
- Romanian: ciocăni (ro)
- Russian: стуча́ть (ru) impf (stučátʹ), сту́кнуть (ru) pf (stúknutʹ), постуча́ть (ru) pf (postučátʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: gnog, buail
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ку̏цати impf, ку̏цнути pf
- Roman: kȕcati (sh) impf, kȕcnuti (sh) pf
- Slovak: klopať impf
- Slovene: trkati impf, potrkati pf
- Spanish: (door) llamar a; golpear (es)
- Swedish: knacka (sv), banka (sv)
- Tajik: задан (tg) (zadan), тақ-тақ кардан (taq-taq kardan), кӯфтан (küftan)
- Tatar: шакылдарга (şaqıldarga), шакылдатырга (şaqıldatırga)
- Thai: เคาะ (th) (kɔ́)
- Turkish: çalmak (tr), tıklatmak (tr), vurmak (tr)
- Turkmen: kakmak
- Ukrainian: сту́кати impf (stúkaty), сту́кнути pf (stúknuty)
- Urdu: کھٹکھٹانا (khaṭakhṭānā)
- Uyghur: ئۇرماق (urmaq)
- Uzbek: taqillatmoq (uz), urmoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: gõ (vi)
- Welsh: cnocio (cy)
- Xhosa: nkqonkqoza
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to bump or impact
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 撞 (zong6)
- Czech: uhodit (cs)
- Dutch: botsen (nl)
- Esperanto: frapi (eo)
- Finnish: kolhaista, kolauttaa
- Georgian: დარტყმა (darṭq̇ma)
- German: schlagen (de)
- Greek: χτυπάω (el) (chtypáo)
- Hungarian: ütközik (hu), nekiütközik (hu), nekimegy (hu), (knock off): lever (hu)
- Ido: frapar (io)
- Indonesian: tabrak (id)
- Italian: picchiare (it), sbattere (it)
- Konkani: धाडचे (dhāḍce)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: tarawete
- Middle English: knokken
- Norwegian: støte, slå (no), dunke
- Portuguese: bater (pt)
- Scottish Gaelic: buail
- Swedish: stöta emot, slå emot
- Thai: น็อก (th) (nɔ́k)
- Turkish: tokuşturmak (tr), vurmak (tr)
- Yiddish: שלאָגן (shlogn), קלאַפּן (klapn)
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Further reading
Yola
Noun
knock
- Alternative form of knaugh
References
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136