Knob vs Snob - What's the difference?
knob | snob |
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)
(British, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sex with.
(colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 57:
(dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
* 1844 , (Charles Dickens), Martin Chuzzlewit :
* 1913 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Poison Belt :
(informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
* 1958 , (Arnold Wesker), Roots :
As nouns the difference between knob and snob
is that knob is a rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch while snob is a cobbler or shoemaker.As a verb knob
is to have sex with.knob
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* doorknob * knob-and-tubeVerb
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(en noun) (wikipedia snob)- The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […].
- 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs .'
- I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.
- If wanting the best things in life means being a snob' then glory hallelujah I'm a ' snob .