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Knob vs Gob - What's the difference?

knob | gob |

As nouns the difference between knob and gob

is that knob is a rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch while gob is a lump of soft or sticky material.

As verbs the difference between knob and gob

is that knob is to have sex with while gob is to gather into a lump.

knob

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch.
  • (geography) A prominent rounded hill.
  • A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
  • A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
  • (plural) breasts.
  • (British, NZ, slang) A penis.
  • (slang, pejorative) A contemptible person.
  • (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter)

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * doorknob * knob-and-tube

    Verb

  • (British, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sex with.

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    gob

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
  • * 1952 , The Glass Industry , Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309,
    • These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes(sic) out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
  • (countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
    • He?s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
    Oi, you, shut your gob !
    She's got such a gob on her – she?s always gossiping about someone or other.
  • (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
    • He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
  • (US, military, slang) A sailor.
  • * 1944' November, ''Fitting the '''Gob to the Job'', '' , page 18,
    • For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
  • * 1948' June, Fred B. Barton, ''Mending Broken '''Gobs'' , ''The Rotarian , page 22,
    • Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that?s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.
  • (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
  • * 1930 , Engineering and Mining Journal , Volume 130, page 330,
    • This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.

    Synonyms

    * (the mouth) ** (standard) mouth ** cakehole, face, mush, trap * (saliva) ** (standard) saliva, spit, sputum **

    Derived terms

    * gobby * gobshite * gobsmacked * gobstopper / gob stopper / gob-stopper * shut your gob * gob-up

    Verb

  • To gather into a lump.
  • * 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich'', '' , page 60,
    • I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.
  • To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

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