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[–] peter@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The opposite of a tally whacker

[–] iamhazel@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Best one lmao

[–] saba@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

A typo by Stephen King

[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

The BIG marbles lol

[–] Frenchy@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Yup - same in Australia

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I call 'em dangerous to bare feet!

[–] trachemys@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a British sex term

[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

It really does!

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

Knocks boms

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dan@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

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

Looks like a mace.

[–] abclop99@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Knocks boms

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A sort of monster with a butt fixation.

[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] iamhazel@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

a right ass I'll bet

[–] Duchess@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A blocker? (Sports or hormones?)

Thinking rhyming slang.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

spoiler

Gonna knock your bommy off, apparently!

[–] simple@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Some kind of door knocker?

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

British schoolyard game

[–] Scooter411@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Made up nonsense.

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