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Knob vs Nob - What's the difference?

knob | nob |

As nouns the difference between knob and nob

is that knob is a rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch while nob is a wealthy or influential person; a toff.

As verbs the difference between knob and nob

is that knob is to have sex with while nob is {{cx|informal|lang=en}} To hit in the head.

As a proper noun Nob is

a place, north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants were massacred by Saul.

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.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    nob

    English

    Etymology 1

    * From "nobleman" or "member of the nobility" (Doubtful) * From "white-nob" (Eighteenth century) or "white-head", referring to the powdered wigs used by those affecting upper middle-class status.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, chiefly, British) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
    • The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
  • :: Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth

    • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The head.
    • Jack and Jill went up the hill / to fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling after. / Up Jack got and home did trot, / as fast as he could caper, / to old Dame Dob / to mend his nob / with vinegar and brown paper.
  • (cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
    • One for his nob .
  • (slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis.

    • Verb

  • To hit in the head

    • Anagrams

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