Talk:knob

Vulgarity
Hey, thank you for polishing this knob entry for Wiktionary and fulfilling the rfv-sense request. I was just unfamiliar with calling someone a "knob". If you have a moment, my question to you is this: if definition 8 and 9 (penis) are vulgar, and if definition 10 (contemptible person) is "by analogy with above", is definition 10 vulgar too? Is definition 10 of knob and/or "knobbish" on the same level of vulgarity with the relevant senses of "dick" or "dickish"? Could "dick" be a synonym for definition 8, 9, and/or 10 of "knob", paralleling the synonym relationship between "knob" and "dick" for the verb sense? Thanks for any insight. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 13:11, 25 April 2022 (UTC) (modified)
 * No problem. I’d say that dick and knob (though I personally prefer the spelling nob) are identical in meaning and vulgarity level when referring to their senses of penis or a contemptible person. The bit that strikes me as odd is saying that (k)nob can refer to the glans. I would always class that as a ‘nob end’ instead, though there may well be others who use the word that way. Overlordnat1 (talk) 13:34, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

RFV discussion: April–May 2022
Rfv-sense "A contemptible person".

I've never heard this in American English (but not impossible?), though it does seem like it could be British (following definition 8, "The penis." which is supposed to be "chiefly UK"- I believe I have heard this sense in the USA). I think this RFV could potentially show that the 'contemptible person' sense is chiefly UK too. Out of my range of experience. I'm trying to understand the (likely?) British origins of a new entry I created, knobbish. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 14:36, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * This is an EXTREMELY widely used term in the U.K., see the following results for ‘fucking knob’ and ‘fucking nob’. There are also many results for ‘nob end’, ‘knob end’, nob head’, ‘knob head’, ‘nob-end’ and the like. Also see the following:- (which discusses the alternative spellings),, , ,  and  (which proves that the term is also used in Ireland, as it says ‘fecking nob’). You’re right to create ‘knobbish’ but ‘nobbish’, ‘knobby’ and ‘nobby’ are all also used sometimes with the same meaning. Overlordnat1 (talk) 19:57, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Now fully cited (and without the alternate spelling ‘nob’ or compounds like ‘knob end’ and ‘knob jockey’). Overlordnat1 (talk) 01:03, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed This, that and the other (talk) 13:36, 5 May 2022 (UTC)