"Knock, Knock" Not in OED

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Oct 5 12:38:39 UTC 2013


I don't see the expression "knock knock" in OED, either in the phrase "knock knock joke" or in the joke-introducing formula "Knock, knock who's there."

Fred Shapiro

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