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knob-end en · NOUN

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1. (Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) The glans penis
   • 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:
   • Lenny Plant thought the world of his foreskin, appreciating the benefits it bestowed on his knob-end. 2014, Andrew Price, Poor Enid, page 343:
2. (Ireland, UK, offensive, slang, vulgar) A stupid or contemptible person
   • 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:
   • Why did these knob-ends so much want us to fail? 2001, Hamish MacDonald, The Gravy Star, page 51:
   • That's it, you pair of knob-ends. 2010, Kimberley Chambers, The Betrayer, page 150:
3. (informal) The 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:
   • 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:

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