knacking

Verb

knack (third-person singular simple present knacks, present participle knacking, simple past and past participle knacked)

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
   • If they hear the Beads knack upon each other, that's enough.1674, Joseph Hall, Bishop Hall's sayings concerning travellers to prevent popish and debauch'd principles, William Miller
2. To speak affectedly.

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