knob-end

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1. IrelandUKslangvulgarThe glans penis

   Lenny Plant thought the world of his foreskin, appreciating the benefits it bestowed on his knob-end.

   2014, Andrew Price, Poor Enid, page 343

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   He appreciated a man giving head as much as anyone, and he was sure as hell gonna enjoy the feel of his knob-end slipping between Casey's hungry lips.

   2006, Marc Holland, Mark Stone: Secret Agent, page 30

2. IrelandUKoffensiveslangvulgarA stupid or contemptible person

   That's it, you pair of knob-ends.

   2010, Kimberley Chambers, The Betrayer, page 150

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   Why did these knob-ends so much want us to fail?

   2001, Hamish MacDonald, The Gravy Star, page 51

   Nothing ever sickened me more than pre-season friendlies, when English teams would come over and total knob-ends would actually show up at the matches to cheer on the foreign side.

   2006, Johnny Fallon, Party Time: Growing Up in Politics, page 157

3. informalThe heel of a loaf of bread.

   […] the knob end of a moldy loaf of bread. He was halfway through chewing it when he was aware of the corpse of a fox lying at the end of the alley.

   1990, Garry Kilworth, The Foxes of First Dark, page 90

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knob, end. The end of something that is shaped into a knob.

   Greg marches up to the farmhouse door and is about to whack it with the knurled knob-end of his ash walking stick when it opens abruptly.

   2013, Charles Stross, Equoid

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   The Tithing - man -— with his long stick, with a knob on one end, and a squirrel's tail on the other — was swift in dealing out punishments, and the sharp raps from the knob-end quickly brought about proper behavior .

   1928, Imogen Clark, Old Days and Old Ways, page 30

   She saw the shiny knob-end of the rhubarb thrusting upwards upon the thick red stem, thrusting itself like a knob of flame through the soft soil.

   1949, David Herbert Lawrence, The Rainbow, page 414