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Definition of Knacking
1. knack [v] - See also: knack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knacking
Literary usage of Knacking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"The snapping, or, as it is sometimes spelt, knacking, of their fingers by barbers
is noticed by many old writers. " Amongst the rest let not the barber be ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... people hath more liking in their | bodily ears in such knacking and tattering
than in hearing of God's law, and speaking of the blish of heaven. ..."
3. Old English Popular Music by William Chappell, Harry Ellis Wooldridge (1893)
"The barber in Lyly's Midas (1592), says to his apprentice, "Thou knowest I have
taught thee the knacking of the hands,1 like the tuning of a cittern," and ..."
4. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1902)
"knacking, part. Dav. has " downright." ? knocking or gnashing. ... Mery, Nay,
sure; the partie is in good knacking earnest. Ib., iii. 2. KICKSHAW, s. ..."
5. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
""17" • knacking-. The knacking of the tongue, ie affecting to speak finely, a
word in tho Nur th ;m- ..."
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