Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive)Protrude

  2. (transitive)Furnish or produce with a knob, knobble

  3. (UK, slang, transitive, vulgar)To have sex with.

Origin

From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob, knot in wood, bud”), pro

From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob, knot in wood, bud”), probably ultimately from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), one of several kn- words related to *knudaną (“to knead”).

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Forms

knobs, knobbing, knobbed, knobbed

regular · Lesson

Base formknob · to knob
3rd person singularknobs
Present participleknobbing
Past simpleknobbed
Past participleknobbed

Tenses

knob · knobbed · will knob · have knobbed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyknob
he, she, itknobs

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave knobbed
he, she, ithas knobbed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill knob

Past simpleLesson

all personsknobbed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
knightknighthoodknitB1knockA2knockout

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