A person whose outlook is scornfully negative.
A person who believes that all people are motivated by selfishness.
cynical (in all senses)
Relating to the Dog Star.
A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
The knocker of a door.
A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.