Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—K

Knack

Skill in handiwork. The derivation of this word is a great puzzle. Minshew suggests that it is a mere variant of knock. Cotgrave thinks it a variant of snap. Others give the German knacken (to sound).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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