Rhyming Slang (was - Re: An interesting bit of trivia)

[Mary Ann]

Iggy wrote:

> Interesting... I had always heard that a "knacker" was a kind of
> butcher, and so if something is "knackered," it's been cut up for 
its
> meat.

Here in Somerset "knackered" means worn out after sex.  A locally 
born-and-raised friend of mine can remember being wholloped across 
the floor at the age of nine by her mother for proclaiming that she 
was knackered.  Of course, she didn't even know what she was saying!

Fast forward 15 years...my friend's 4-year-old daughter is talking 
to my friend's mother on the phone and says, "Grandma, I'm 
knackered!".  Grandma was very confused until my friend shouted in 
the background, "No, Emily, you're *naked*!".  Grandma was on the 
floor practically wetting herself laughing.

The things kids say, eh?

Mary Ann :)