knackered
adj/ˈnæk.əd/UK/ˈnæk.ɚd/US
Etymology
From "ready for the knacker's yard" or "fit to be knackered", meaning "worn-out livestock, fit to be slaughtered and rendered".
Definitions
Tired or exhausted.
- I've got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I'm dead knackered at the end of the day so I don't know about going out and like studying every night.
- So my joy at hearing his voice quickly turns to a paroxysm of anxiety as he manages by exhausted gesture and sound to let us know how knackered he feels, how desperate to get horizontal, almost from the first moment he lands in the chair.
simple past and past participle of knacker
Broken, inoperative.
- In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...
- We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA