Kivey, subs. (common).—A man; a fellow: a diminutive of cove (q.v.).
1854. Bradley, Verdant Green, ii. ch. 4. That’ll stop your dancing
my kivey.
K. Legged, adj. (printers’).—Knock-kneed; shaky on the pins.
Kloop! intj. (common).—An imitation of the sound of a drawing cork.
1872. Sunday Times, Aug. 25, p. 2. col. 5. ‘The Deserted Village.’
When the sudden kloop of a cork has startled me.
Klem, verb. (American thieves’).—See quot.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Klem the bloke, hit the man.
Klep, subs. (popular).—A thief. For synonyms see Thieves. [Short for
kleptomaniac].
Verb. To steal. For synonyms see Prig.
Knab the Rust. See Rust.
Knack, subs. (venery).—1. The penis. For synonyms see Creamstick and
Prick.
1656. Fletcher, Martiall, vii. 30. Why, being a Roman lasse, dost
do this? tell, Is’t cause no Roman knack can please so well?
2. (old: now recognised).—1. A trick; and (2) a trinket. [Tyrwhitt: The
word seems to have been formed by the knacking or snapping of the
fingers made by jugglers].
1383. Chaucer, Cant. Tales, 4099. The more queinte knakkes that
they make (= the cleverer tricks they practise).
1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie, Matassiner des mains, to move, knack,
or waggle the fingers, like a jugler.
1653. Brome, Novella, i. 2. Such rings, such things, such knacks,
such knots and bobs.
1675. Cotton, Scoffer Scofft, in Wks. (1725), p. 163. And if they
Women meet do rout ’um, For the fine knacks they wear about ’um.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Knack, or Slight in any Art,
the Craft or Mystery in any Trade, a petty artifice, or Trick like
those upon the Cards. Knacks, or Toies.
1731–35. Pope, Moral Essays, ii. 155. For how could equal colours
do the knack?
1781. Cowper, Table Talk, 666. While servile tricks and imitative
knacks.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 5. Lots of good temper and nack.
Knacker, subs. (old).—1. An old horse.
1869. W. Bradwood, The O. V., H. xii. Thoroughbred weeds, and a few
thoroughbred weight-carriers; half-bred knackers, and half-bred
hunters cheap at three figures.