- Any working class area of an Irish city (e.g. Mayfield in Cork, Ballybeg in Waterford, west Tallaght or Ballymun in Dublin). Can also be used to refer to the entire city of Limerick.
- Derives from knacker + "Nicaragua" and originates from the early '80s when that country was much in the news for being something of a troublespot.
- Such an area will be populated by skangers, norries, skobes, chavs and of course the ludakrisly laughable wiggaz.
- The polar opposite of D4
- "You're where? Neilstown? If you think I'm coming over to Knackeragua to pick you up, you must have shit for brains!"
- "Liffey Valley? Oh yeah, the shops are kewell but it's in the middle of Knackeragua."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)