Knackeredis British slang for “very tired.” It was first recorded in English in the late 1880s fromknacker, or “to tire.” It’s related to an earlier sense ofknackerthat meant “to kill.” Luckily, the meaning today is much less shocking. Though it’s an older word,knackeredis s...
In Middle English it was exclusively in historical use, or in reference to the inhabitants of Brittany (seeBreton); it was revived when James I was proclaimedKing of Great Britainin 1604, and made official at the union of England and Scotland in 1707. ...
A month ago I had the pleasing experience of packing for Perth. In South African slang, ‘packing for Perth’ means immigrating to Australia. In the decade that followed thetransition to democracy, around800,000 mainly white South Africans left– some for New Zealand, Britain, and the United...