Nob vs Noo - What's the difference?
nob | noo |
(slang, chiefly, British) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
:: Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth
The head.
(cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
(slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis.
To hit in the head
As a noun nob
is ioc.As an adverb noo is
(geordie) now.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)- The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
Etymology 2
(en)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- One for his nob .