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Old 10-12-2010, 20:18   #26
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Re: The 'knocker-upper' and lamplighter

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson View Post
You would be well advised not to tell any Amnetricans that your granny was a knocker up, as it has a meaning over there simiklar to our term - knocking off, as in. " Ah were knockin' mi mate's wife off"
In Canada, to "knock someone up" is to impregnate her. And someone who is knocked up or KU'd is pregnant.
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