nob
verbEtymology Pronunciation spelling of knob. Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.
1
Slang To hit in the head.
nob
nounUK /nɒb/ · US /nɑb/
Etymology Pronunciation spelling of knob. Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.
7 senses
- 1The head.
- 2A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
- 3The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the…
- 4(vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) The penis; dick.…
- 5A contemptible person; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
- 6A wealthy or influential person; a toff.
- 7Obsolete form of knob (“rounded protuberance”).
1
The head.
Now only in slang
- 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.
- "What a deep covey!" said a greasy butcher with his mouth open, a red night-cap on his nob, and pointing towards Jacco Maccacco.1870 [1821], Pierce Egan, Life in London, London: Chatto and Windus, page 261:
2
A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
- One for his nob.
3
Slang The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.)
4
Broadly (vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) The penis; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
5
Broadly, Derogatory A contemptible person; dick. (Also spelled knob.)
- Col wasn’t impressed with Dick’s patronising comments and turned his back and rolled his eyes whilst at the same time mumbling “Fucking nob, Dick by name Dick by nature” under his breath.(Can we date this quote?), Philip Mumby, Halfway House, page 85:
- Christine would help Kelly with her submission so she didn’t look like a complete nob! And in exchange Kelly would introduce and talk Christine through some of her artistic works: giving her a personal guided tour from her earliest through to her latest pieces.2012, Laura J. Harris, Splintered, page 40:
1 more example
- I was in a garden […]A place no bloody nob could take away2019 July 30, Elisa Braden, A Kiss from a Rogue:
- The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth:
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Obsolete Obsolete form of knob (“rounded protuberance”).
- He spoke with a lisp, occasioned by the loss of two of his large front teeth, which allowed the tongue as he talked to appear through the opening in a round nob like a raspberry.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
- Derived terms
- Bald Nob, his nob, nobbish, nobby, nobhead, nob thatcher, pitch the nob