Only Google it after you answer please
Big P ( @peter@feddit.uk ) 9•1 year agoThe opposite of a tally whacker
POTUS@whitehouse.gov ( @saba@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•1 year agoA typo by Stephen King
In New Zealand this is what my son calls a bommy knocker
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 2•1 year ago
This is a term I have heard many times (in NZ) but I can’t actually connect it with a physical thing…
The BIG marbles lol
Frenchy ( @Frenchy@aussie.zone ) 2•1 year agoYup - same in Australia
Sounds like a British sex term
It really does!
LogicalDrivel ( @LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ) English5•1 year agoA bommy is a small metal plate attached to the side of old wooden ships. It would be attached outside the ship a few feet above the water line. A metal knocker was fixed to the bommy with a small float. If the ship started to take on water or loaded to much cargo, the ship would sit lower in the water and the knocker would hit the bommy, alerting the crew of potential problems.
Sounds good at least…
dan ( @dan@startrek.website ) 4•1 year agoNever heard it before. I googled it in incognito tab, just in case.
Looks like a mace.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 4•1 year ago
It’s a flail. Like a wooden stick with a chain and a solid metal ball on the end
snaptastic ( @snaptastic@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoYes, this was my understanding too.
abclop99 ( @abclop99@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year agoKnocks boms
fiasco ( @fiasco@possumpat.io ) 2•1 year agoSounds like gin and tea, served hot with a twist of lemon.
Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) 2•1 year agoAn insult, a sex act, and/or a drink.
Scooter411 ( @Scooter411@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoMade up nonsense.
A blocker? (Sports or hormones?)
Thinking rhyming slang.
spoiler
Gonna knock your bommy off, apparently!
Duchess ( @Duchess@yiffit.net ) 1•1 year agogibberish phrase from a children’s story i don’t know?
hazel 🤷🏻♀️🏳️🌈 ( @iamhazel@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoa right ass I’ll bet