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submitted 2 years ago by chrizbie@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Only Google it after you answer please

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[-] peter@feddit.uk 16 points 2 years ago

The opposite of a tally whacker

[-] iamhazel@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Best one lmao

[-] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In New Zealand this is what my son calls a bommy knocker

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 years ago

This is a term I have heard many times (in NZ) but I can't actually connect it with a physical thing..

[-] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

The BIG marbles lol

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I call 'em dangerous to bare feet!

[-] Frenchy@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Yup - same in Australia

[-] saba 12 points 2 years ago

A typo by Stephen King

[-] trachemys@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

It’s when one boob is much bigger than the other.

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago

Sounds like a British sex term

[-] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

It really does!

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

A 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...

[-] abclop99@beehaw.org -1 points 2 years ago

Knocks boms

[-] dan@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Never heard it before. I googled it in incognito tab, just in case.

Looks like a mace.

[-] abclop99@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Knocks boms

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

It's a flail. Like a wooden stick with a chain and a solid metal ball on the end

[-] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago

Sounds like gin and tea, served hot with a twist of lemon.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

An insult, a sex act, and/or a drink.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

A sort of monster with a butt fixation.

[-] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Scooter411@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Made up nonsense.

[-] simple@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Some kind of door knocker?

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

A blocker? (Sports or hormones?)

Thinking rhyming slang.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

spoiler

Gonna knock your bommy off, apparently!

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

British schoolyard game

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] iamhazel@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

a right ass I'll bet

[-] Duchess@yiffit.net 1 points 2 years ago

gibberish phrase from a children's story i don't know?

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