fartknocker

See also: fart-knocker and fart knocker

English

Alternative forms

• fart knocker, fart-knocker

Etymology

From fart +‎ knocker.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

fartknocker (plural fartknockers)

1. (slang, derogatory) A contemptible or annoying person.
   • 1971, Nolan Porterfield, A Way of Knowing: A Novel, Harper's Magazine Press, page 112:

     He ran off, laughing and screaming. Dud jumped up and gave chase. "You little fart knocker," he said, clomping away, long-legged, into the dark. "Bring back here my Hubert Terrapins."

   • August 1974, Larry L. King, “Redneck!”, Texas Monthly, vol. 2, no. 8, p. 63:

     Well, alright, dammit, I don’t like hearing the little fartknocker cry neither.

   • 1997, Emily Toth, Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 34:

     […] Conversely, “What are you racist fartknockers doing about your piss-ant legislature?” won't get you hired at a state university.)

   • 2000, Dorothy Garlock, After the Parade‎^[1], Warner Books, →ISBN:

     “Some no-good fart-knocker is out there beatin' up on a woman. […]

   • 2013, Hilary Fields, Bliss‎^[2], Redhook Orbit, →ISBN:

     “Well, then, why have none of you worthless fart knockers seen fit to fetch her lazy arse? […]

2. (slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
   • 1995, Krandall Krauss, The President's Son, Alyson Publications, →ISBN, page 92:

     "That little fartknocker didn't leave us any money, and he said it was going to be on him."
     "That's all right, I've got money," Elaine said. "He's so funny; I love him. He's always chasing some man."

   • 1998 July 26, ojokay [username], “Re: Welcome back psycho!”, in alt.fan.oj-simpson‎^[3] (Usenet):

     You want more Beavis, closet fartknocker?

   • 2003 July 24, Gordon Tomlinson, “Re: Gordon Creighton, editor of Flying Saucer Review, dies...”, in alt.alien.visitors‎^[4] (Usenet):

     You smelly degenerate American fag, you seem to have a carnal knowledge of fudgepacking that belies just knowledge, you seem very well up on the subject, however crap at knowing what us brits are like. Well being a fartknocker, i suppose you get ignored regularly.

3. (informal) An instance of being thrown from, or hitting the ground after being thrown from, a horse.
   • 1971, Ramon F. Adams, The Cowman Says It Salty, University of Arizona Press, published 1971, page 70:

     […] and, as one cowboy said, "I didn't get settled in the saddle before that hoss shore sent me on a fart knocker."

   • 1975, Jake Logan, Ride, Slocum, Ride, Playboy Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     Slocum flew from the saddle and came down on the road a solid fart knocker.

   • 1989, Doyle Trent, Gunsmoke Justice, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 22:

     “Wa-al, old Jennifer, she don't care much for strangers anyhow, and she snorted like a steam engine and went straight up. That sombitch turned a double fart-knocker and lit flat on his back. He wasn't dead but he had the hound dog shit knocked out of 'im."

Synonyms

• (homosexual man): see also Thesaurus:male homosexual.