Day: May 5, 2017

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Australian Writers' Centre Team

Word of the week: Apple-knocker

Apple-knocker (noun) [ap-uh l-nok-er] While this ain’t a common term in Australia and is not listed in the Macquarie Dictionary, it’s more used as a colloquial term in the US where it means “an ignorant or unsophisticated person”, like a hillbilly perhaps. There could be a few reasons for this.

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