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tommyknockers

tommyknockers is the plural 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

Questions about tommyknockers

What is tommyknockers the plural of?
Tommyknockers is the plural of tommyknocker.

Words near tommyknockers in the dictionary

  1. tommyhawked
  2. tommyhawking
  3. tommyhawks
  4. tommying
  5. tommyknocker
  6. tommyknockers
  7. tommyrot
  8. tommyrots
  9. tommyto
  10. tommytoe
  11. tommytoes

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