• flubba86@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’m from Australia. When I was a kid my mum used to call those inflatable baseball bats and inflatable hammers “tommy knockers”, and weirdly my dad called big boobs “tommy knockers”. I’m sure that and bomby knocker and dongy knocker are all derived from the same root colloquialism.