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nob-head

nob-head is the alternative form of knobhead.

Meaning of knobhead

Noun

knobhead (plural knobheads)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, literally, slang, vulgar) Synonym of glans penis.
    • Holonym: knob
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) A fool; an idiot; a contemptible person.
    • Luca was wary of Tav getting away with too much twattishness, because he had a lot of it floating around, and maybe some people liked that whole knobhead dominant guy thing, but not Luca.2015, Matthew J. Metzger, The Italian Word for Kisses, page 193

Forms of nob-head

pluralnob-heads

Questions about nob-head

What is nob-head the alternative form of?
Nob-head is the alternative form of knobhead.

Words near nob-head in the dictionary

  1. nob jockeys
  2. nob thatcher
  3. nob thatchers
  4. nob-end
  5. nob-ends
  6. nob-head
  7. nob-heads
  8. Nobama
  9. Nobb
  10. Nobbe
  11. nobbed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nob-head (page history and authors); knobhead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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