nob

plural nobs

1. now only in slangThe head.

   He aimed a dreadful chopper at Baily’s nob.

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   Then up Jack got. And home did trot, As fast as he could caper; Dame Gill did the job, To plaster his nob With vinegar and brown paper.

   1810, Jack and Jill, and old Dame Gill, York: J. Kendrew, page 3

   "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. cribbageA jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.

   One for his nob.

   Synonyms: nibs

3. slangThe 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. broadlyderogatoryA contemptible person; dick. (Also spelled knob.)

   I was in a garden […]A place no bloody nob could take away

   2019 July 30, Elisa Braden, A Kiss from a Rogue

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   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

6. IrelandUKslangA wealthy or influential person; a toff.

   The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.

   1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth

7. obsoleteObsolete 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

present singular third person nobs · participle present nobbing · participle past nobbed · past nobbed

1. slangtransitiveTo hit in the head.

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