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knobbed

knobbed is the simple past and past participle of knob.

Meaning of knob

Verb

knob (third-person singular simple present knobs, present participle knobbing, simple past and past participle knobbed)

  1. (intransitive) protrude
  2. (transitive) furnish or produce with a knob, knobble
  3. (UK, slang, transitive, vulgar) To have sex with.
    • One morning, maybe three weeks after my last grapple with Penny, Thomson came roaring into our form room. ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17

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Adjective

knobbed (not comparable)

  1. Having a knob or knobs.
    • a knobbed chromosome
    • No animal, either from its disposition, or its formation, seems less fitted for a state of natural hostility; its horns are blunt, and even knobbed at the ends; its teeth are made entirely for vegetable pasture […]1774, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, London: J. Nourse, Volume 4, Chapter 11, The Camelopard, pp. 299-300

Words formed from knobbed

Phrases with knobbed

Questions about knobbed

What does knobbed mean?
Knobbed means having a knob or knobs.
What is knobbed the simple past and past participle of?
Knobbed is the simple past and past participle of knob.
What part of speech is knobbed?
Knobbed is an adjective.

Words near knobbed in the dictionary

  1. knob-thatcher
  2. knob-thatchers
  3. knob-twiddler
  4. knob-twiddlers
  5. Knobbe
  6. knobbed
  7. knobbed whelk
  8. knobbed whelks
  9. knobber
  10. knobbers
  11. Knobbes

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