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fartknocker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈfɑɹtˌnɒkəɹ/

Etymology

Shitgibbon compound of fart + knocker.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, slang) A contemptible or annoying person.
   • “Well, then, why have none of you worthless fart knockers seen fit to fetch her lazy arse? […] 2013, Hilary Fields, Bliss, Redhook Orbit, →ISBN:
   • Well, alright, dammit, I don’t like hearing the little fartknocker cry neither. August 1974, Larry L. King, “Redneck!”, Texas Monthly, vol. 2, no. 8, p. 63
   • […] Conversely, “What are you racist fartknockers doing about your piss-ant legislature?” won't get you hired at a state university.) 1997, Emily Toth, Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 34:
   • “Some no-good fart-knocker is out there beatin' up on a woman. […] 2000, Dorothy Garlock, After the Parade, Warner Books, →ISBN:
   • He ran off, laughing and screaming. Dud jumped up and gave chase. "You little fart knocker," he said, clomping away, long-legged, into the dark. "Bring back here my Hubert Terrapins." 1971, Nolan Porterfield, A Way of Knowing: A Novel, Harper's Magazine Press, page 112:
2. (derogatory, slang) A homosexual man.
   • You smelly degenerate American fag, you seem to have a carnal knowledge of fudgepacking that belies just knowledge, you seem very well up on the subject, however crap at knowing what us brits are like. Well being a fartknocker, i suppose you get ignored regularly. 2003 July 24, Gordon Tomlinson, “Re: Gordon Creighton, editor of Flying Saucer Review, dies...”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):
   • "That little fartknocker didn't leave us any money, and he said it was going to be on him." "That's all right, I've got money," Elaine said. "He's so funny; I love him. He's always chasing some man." 1995, Krandall Krauss, The President's Son, Alyson Publications, →ISBN, page 92:
   • You want more Beavis, closet fartknocker? 1998 July 26, ojokay [username], “Re: Welcome back psycho!”, in alt.fan.oj-simpson (Usenet):
3. (informal) An instance of being thrown from, or hitting the ground after being thrown from, a horse.
   • “Wa-al, old Jennifer, she don't care much for strangers anyhow, and she snorted like a steam engine and went straight up. That sombitch turned a double fart-knocker and lit flat on his back. He wasn't dead but he had the hound dog shit knocked out of 'im." 1989, Doyle Trent, Gunsmoke Justice, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 22:
   • Slocum flew from the saddle and came down on the road a solid fart knocker. 1975, Jake Logan, Ride, Slocum, Ride, Playboy Press, →ISBN, page 50:
   • […] and, as one cowboy said, "I didn't get settled in the saddle before that hoss shore sent me on a fart knocker." 1971, Ramon F. Adams, The Cowman Says It Salty, University of Arizona Press, published 1971, page 70:

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