knobber
knobber noun: a hart in its second year; a young male deer.
Noun
knobber (plural knobbers)
- A hart in its second year; a young male deer.
- Near-synonyms: brocket, pricket, spitter
- As soon as the knobber started galloping, all the other stags, who. till now, had taken but a languid interest, if any, in his movements, jumped on to their feet.1906, Country life, volume 20, page 619
- A stupid, obnoxious, or otherwise contemptible person.
- Harry chuckled. 'What is it, old son? Are you worried Natalie will go for a rummage in your undercarriage and come away empty-handed?'
Ad spat Tango across the table, missing me by inches.
'No, you knobber,' I said. “I'm meeting her parents for the first time tomorrow.'2015, Ben Davis, The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the Geek, page 29
- Synonyms:
- knob, knobhead, knob-gobbler, knob polisher, assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface
- Harry chuckled. 'What is it, old son? Are you worried Natalie will go for a rummage in your undercarriage and come away empty-handed?'
Examples of knobber in a sentence
- She climbed to the top of Craig Dhu and had a long spy, but, except for more hinds and one small knobber, living thing there was none.1925, John Buchan, John Macnab, page 100:
- While I watched the young hind approached the knobber and, after standing by him for a moment, began to lick him1968, Lea MacNally, Highland year:
- A mature stag chases a young male (a knobber) from the harem1978 November 16, New Scientist, volume 80, number 1129, page 540:
Synonyms of knobber
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Forms of knobber
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Origin of knobber
From knob + -er; the deer sense derives from the fact that a young buck's antlers begin diminutively as mere knobs; the fool sense derives indirectly from a reference to the penis; the two senses are ultimately cognate.
Words that rhyme with knobber
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Questions about knobber
- What does knobber mean?
- Knobber means a hart in its second year; a young male deer.
- How do you use knobber in a sentence?
- She climbed to the top of Craig Dhu and had a long spy, but, except for more hinds and one small knobber, living thing there was none.
- What part of speech is knobber?
- Knobber is a noun.
- What is the plural of knobber?
- The plural of knobber is knobbers.
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