knob
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
geography
lifestyle
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob, knot in wood, bud”), probably ultimately from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), one of several kn- words related to *knudaną (“to knead”).
Compare Middle Dutch knobbe, cnoppe, Middle Low German knobbe (“knob, knot in wood”), knubbe, Dutch knop (“knob, button, bud”), Old Frisian knopp, knapp, Old High German knopf (“bud, pommel of a sword, knot, loop”), Middle High German knospe, German Knopf (“button, knob”), Knospe (“bud”), Danish knap (“button”), knop (“knob, button, bud”), Faroese knappur (“button”), Icelandic hnappur (“button”), Norn knapp (“round button”), knubbi (“potato”), snapp (“knob, round top”), Norwegian and Swedish knapp (“button”), Norwegian knopp (“bud”), Swedish knopp (“bud, knob”), Finnish nappi (“button, knob”), nuppi (“knob, pommel”), Old Norse knyfill (“short horn”).
Also compare Middle English knap, knappe (“small projection, knob (button, tassel, tuft, etc.), hill, hilltop, etc.)”), from Old English cnæp, cnæpp (“summit, top”), which is possibly related to Old Norse knappr (“small projection, knob (button, head of a stick, etc.)”) (whence English knop), from Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), *knuppô (“lump, clod”).
Cognate with Dutch knob, knobbel (“knob”), German Knubbe, Knubbel (“knob”). See also knop. For the sense of a rounded hill, see nab and knab.
Inflected forms:
form: knobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
pos: noun
gloss: A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
pos: noun
gloss: A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
pos: noun
gloss: A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
pos: noun
gloss: A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
pos: noun
gloss: A prominent rounded hill.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
examples: We climbed to the top of Slate Hill, the highest knob in our town, and Ricky gave me a whole talk on how slate formed, how it was and was not shale.
gloss: A woman's breast.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
gloss: The penis; dick.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The penis; dick.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
slang
examples: Arthur slammed his fist down on the table so hard, the cup jumped, spilling coffee. The rotten bastard means to have the guvnor’s guts. That fucking knob has never been on a live deployment in his entire life.[…]
[…] He must really hate those people!” my father said in an all-too audible aside to Mom. “I don’t hate them, you stupid knob!” Critch said. It’s you and your whole kind I hate!”
“Yes,” said Jessie, pouring herself a coffee. “The rumours are true. Birdie McBride has a big knob.” “No,” I corrected, deadpan, “I said he is a big knob,”
[…]I let out a sigh, and then stood up, and looked toward the thief, who was still running. “Bloody knob!” I called out, and then began to wipe off the dirt and water with my sweater sleeve.
Fearn picks Jeremy Clarkson (“absolute knob. Well-educated, 1980s BBC, and he thinks it’s a licence to say what he wants”); […]
gloss: The clitoris.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: A hot and strong sexual odour emanated from her fanny. I extended my head and pressed my nose between her lips. I pushed my tongue into her crack and lapped up the juices. [...] Then I moved up and grasped her long clitoris in my lips and began to suck and play with it with my tongue. She thrashed around, sometimes grasping my head with her thighs, sometimes opening her legs as wide as she could, pushing my away while gripping my head in her hands and urging me on. Through it all I kept my grip on her knob until her orgasm began to subside.
He was seriously talented, and his fingers were now sliding back and forth over her wet knob, and she was losing her mind. Almost gasping for air from the pleasure, she felt the undeniable need for her release. […] Then his fingers quickened their strokes against her swollen rose bud, […]
gloss: A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
pos: noun
gloss: A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
pos: noun
examples: Place whole, unpeeled knobs of ginger in a zipper-lock freezer bag for up to 3 months. Slice or break off what you need and return the rest to the freezer.
gloss: A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
pos: noun
gloss: A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Males voices, raised in anger, screamed at an unseen freshman. One voice demanded to know the rank on each jacket. “Hey, smack, what rank is this cadet uniform? Answer me, knob! Don’t you know, knob? What’s wrong, are you stupid, knob? For the first time since arriving at The Citadel, I fought to keep back tears. Exhausted from an hour of nonstop harassment, I was caught off guard by the sound of a boy sobbing behind me.
“You went to The Citadel?” her mother chimed in. “I’ve heard so many great things about that institution. Did you go through a plebe year?” I told her I did and that we called it the knob year because freshman cadets had to shave their heads bald to resemble the butt end of a door knob and keep it that way for an entire ten months while going through the process of being broken down, only to be built back up.
Day 1 at the South Carolina Military Academy is filled with the academy’s trademarks - the Guidon, the five basic commands, and a knob haircut.
gloss: protrude
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: furnish or produce with a knob, knobble
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have sex with.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: One morning, maybe three weeks after my last grapple with Penny, Thomson came roaring into our form room. ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’
Had Jack knobbed her as well? Molly wondered.
Synonyms: dick
get up in
schlong
Related words: rung
Derived words: bedknob
Blue Knob
Brodie knob
Brody knob
door knob
doorknob
Dorset knob
drawerknob
drawknob
gearknob
gear knob
ginger knob
granny knob
knob and tube
knob-and-tube
knobber
knobbish
knobble
knobby
knob celery
knob cheese
knob end
knob-end
knob-gobbler
knobhead
knob head
knobheaded
knob job
knob jockey
knob-jockey
Knob Lake
knobless
knoblet
knoblike
knob lock
knob mudalia
knob of butter
knobology
knob polisher
knob rot
knobstick
knob-thatcher
knobthorn
knobtwat
knob-twiddler
knob twiddler
knobweed
necker knob
necker's knob
rivet knob
scob someone's knob
spinner knob
steering wheel spinner knob
suicide knob
surfer's knob
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: բռնակ
roman: bṙnak
lang: Catalan
word: pom
lang: Catalan
word: mànec
lang: Czech
word: otočný knoflík
lang: Czech
word: kolečko
lang: Czech
word: čudlík
lang: Dutch
word: knop
lang: Esperanto
word: anso
lang: Finnish
word: nuppi
lang: French
word: poignée
lang: French
word: bouton
lang: French
word: pommeau
lang: Galician
word: mazá
lang: Georgian
word: სახელური
roman: saxeluri
lang: Georgian
word: კოპი
roman: ḳoṗi
lang: German
word: Knopf
lang: German
word: Knauf
lang: German
word: Drehknopf
lang: German
word: Drehschalter
lang: German
word: Schalter
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τύλος
roman: túlos
lang: Indonesian
word: kenop
lang: Italian
word: maniglia
lang: Italian
word: manopola
lang: Italian
word: pomello
lang: Latin
word: bulla
lang: Latin
word: nodus
lang: Māori
word: reke
lang: Māori
word: pūreke
lang: Māori
word: kou
lang: Māori
word: tīngoingoi
lang: Māori
word: whakangarengare
lang: Māori
word: pūrori
lang: Māori
word: tone
lang: Mongolian
word: иш
roman: iš
lang: Polish
word: gałka
lang: Portuguese
word: calombo
lang: Portuguese
word: manopla
lang: Portuguese
word: pomo
lang: Russian
word: ру́чка
roman: rúčka
lang: Russian
word: вы́пуклость
roman: výpuklostʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kvrga
lang: Spanish
word: perilla
lang: Spanish
word: asa
lang: Turkish
word: topuz
lang: French
word: nœud
lang: Irish
word: pilibín