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tommy-knocker

tommy-knocker is the alternative form of tommyknocker.

Meaning of tommyknocker

Noun

tommyknocker (plural tommyknockers)

  1. A mythical creature, like a brownie or leprechaun, believed to live in underground tunnels; later associated with dead miners.
    • Then he's down one of these adits, talking to the tommyknockers, more'n likely.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 335

Forms of tommy-knocker

pluraltommy-knockers

Questions about tommy-knocker

What is tommy-knocker the alternative form of?
Tommy-knocker is the alternative form of tommyknocker.

Words near tommy-knocker in the dictionary

  1. tommy-cods
  2. tommy-gun
  3. tommy-gunned
  4. tommy-gunning
  5. tommy-guns
  6. tommy-knocker
  7. tommy-knockers
  8. tommy-rot
  9. tommycod
  10. tommycods
  11. tommyfish

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