knob-end

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knob-end (plural knob-ends)

  1. (UK, Ireland, slang, vulgar) The glans penis
    • 2006, Marc Holland, Mark Stone: Secret Agent, page 30:
      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.
    • 2014, Andrew Price, Poor Enid, page 343:
      Lenny Plant thought the world of his foreskin, appreciating the benefits it bestowed on his knob-end.
  2. (UK, Ireland, slang, offensive, vulgar) A stupid or contemptible person
    • 2001, Hamish MacDonald, The Gravy Star, page 51:
      Why did these knob-ends so much want us to fail?
    • 2006, Johnny Fallon, Party Time: Growing Up in Politics, page 157:
      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.
    • 2010, Kimberley Chambers, The Betrayer, page 150:
      That's it, you pair of knob-ends.
  3. (informal) The heel of a loaf of bread.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knob,‎ end. The end of something that is shaped into a knob.
    • 1928, Imogen Clark, Old Days and Old Ways, page 30:
      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 .
    • 1949, David Herbert Lawrence, The Rainbow, page 414:
      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.
    • 2013, Charles Stross, Equoid:
      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.
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